Quotes About Battle

ideological conflicts between cultures are essentially battles between immortality projects

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

He killed more men than the cholera.

But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else's country. Yes, I replied, when it is your own country you can not use it so scientifically. The Russians did, to trap Napoleon. Yes, but they had plenty of country. If you tried to retreat to trap Napoleon in Italy you would find yourself in Brindiri.

To win a war, we must kill our enemies.

O Lord, to comport myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle.

Zaten her ÅŸey ÅŸu ya da bu biçimde baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyi öldürmekle meÅŸgul.

virada para cima. A ponta farpeada do arpão projetava-se em ângulo no dorso do peixe e o mar estava colorido com o sangue vermelho do seu coração. Primeiro a água se tornara muito escura naquele mar tão azul com mais de uma milha

You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world, against all tyranny, for all the things you believed and for the new world you had been educated into.

When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.

You cannot win the battle for your soul if you choose to live the life of a fool, neglecting the health of your soul and not taking time to refine who you are.

It's a troubling thing when your soul demands what your brain rejects.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Freud described eros as the life instinct, doing battle with thanatos, the death instinct.

Let him come! I have seen them come before -- at Margesfontein, Spion Kiopje, Modder River. Stepping into battle, left right left right, waving their silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they was, and with mine rifle I kills them so easy!

Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.

Certainly the fighting around the huge water-tanks on the hillside was continuous for 112 days from the second half of September to 12 January 1943. Historians simply cannot say, or even estimate, how often the summit changed hands, for, as Chuikov notes, there were no witnesses who survived all through the whole battle for it, and in any case no one was keeping count. At one point the life expectancy of soldiers there was between one and two days, and to see a third day made one a veteran.

If you want to make a true picture in your mind of a battle between great modern ironclad ships you must not think of it as if it were two men in armour striking at each other with heavy swords,' he said. 'It is more like a battle between two egg-shells striking each other with hammers.

As one Finn put it after the battle of Kuhmo, 'There were more Russians than we had bullets.

By 5 January, a thousand Russian prisoners had been taken, a further 700 soldiers had escaped back to the Russian lines, and over 27,000 had been killed, all for the loss of 900 Finns.

Between a battle lost and a battle won,' Napoleon had said on the eve of the battle of Leipzig, 'the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Keras grinned. "Good. I haven't had a decent scrap in a while. Let me get my trouble coat.