Quotes About Battle

The War To End All Wars - Book One - Falling Into Battle Andrew Wareham

It was easy to imagine longbowmen cutting their staves from that tree before marching off to Crecy and Agincourt, and still the job was not done, still the French needed to be reminded of their essential inferiority – perhaps they were just slow learners. The

The pure and sinless did not exist, or else died unnoticed and with no obituary. The idea seemed persuasive. Those who merited obituaries had usually achieved things, fought for their ideals, and when locked in battle, it wasn't easy to remain entirely honest and upright. Today's battles were all for material gain, anyway. The crazy idealist was extinct – survived by the crazy pragmatist Ã¢â'¬Â¦

he who fights with the sword dies by the sword.

A baptism of fire, the Witcher thought, furiously striking and parrying blows. I was meant to pass through fire for Ciri. And I'm passing through fire in a battle which is of no interest to me at all. Which I don't understand in any way. The fire that was meant to purify me is just scorching my hair and face.

Sólo la muerte pondrá fin al combate, todo lo demás es una mera interrupción.

Geralt jumped to the side, spun a swift pirouette.

Ogni schermidore è un coglione quando di nemici ne ha una legione, così dicono gli elfi" "Gli elfi non sono soliti esprimersi in maniera così ordinaria

For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.

And I, Sheldon Skaggs, declare there's not an ounce of lies in what you say—and I can tell the lies from the truth because I was there at Sodden. I stood against the Nilfgaard invaders with an axe in my hand …

He cuts the flat head from the body of the idr

The horn of Hemdall sounds as he stands facing his enemies on the rainbow-coloured arch of Bifrost.

She shuddered even more intensely. And calmed down. I'm alive, she thought, looking around. It's not the end of the battle. Death will end the fight, everything else only interrupts it. They taught me that at Kaer Morhen.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always — always — makes itself known.

Leaders understand the unique roles of confidence and caution. Courage requires both. David's caution did not keep him from the battle, but neither did he allow his confidence to blind him to the need to select his stones with care.

The Shield Bug was happy. It had an enemy. It had a sword. Soon the sword would meet the enemy. Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Get the dragon, kill the dragon, kill, kill, kill!

Nechtansmere, Battle of a battle which took place in 685 at Nechtansmere, near Forfar, Scotland, in which the Picts defeated the Northumbrians, stopping their expansion northward and forcing their withdrawal.

We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you.

War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.