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Quotes About Battle

Paul crouched at the ready and, as he had been trained to do after first blood, called out: "Do you yield?
~ Frank Herbert
Cada hombre es una pequeña guerra.
~ Frank Herbert
I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.
~ Frank Herbert
Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough.
~ Frank Herbert
My Fish Speakers are a temporary army in every sense. While they can be violent and vicious, women are profoundly different from men in their dedication to battle. The cradle of genesis ultimately predisposes them to behavior more protective of life. They have proved to be the best keepers of the Golden Path.
~ Frank Herbert
The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk
~ Frank Herbert
On se bat quand il le faut, et pas lorsqu'on en a le cœur!
~ Frank Herbert
Hydarnes: When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun! Leonidas: Good; then we will fight in the shade.
~ Frank Miller
Return with the shield or on it
~ Frank Miller
Of all the warriors that have ever been born in this land, he is the mightiest; and he has sworn a great oath that he will die in the field, with his face turned toward the false worshippers who believe that the son of Joseph was God.
~ Frans G. Bengtsson
Itsen ja maailman välisessä kamppailussa on parempi olla maailman aseenkantaja.
~ Franz Kafka
Het proces de hopeloze strijd van het individu tegen de ongrijpbare machten in de buitenwereld die erop uit zijn het te vernietigen.
~ Franz Kafka
Eräs Pahuuden tehokkaimmista viettelykeinoista on kutsua mukaan taisteluun. Se on samanlainen kuin naisen kanssa käytävä taistelu, joka johtaa vuoteeseen.
~ Franz Kafka
Sometimes it's as though I were a gladiator in training. He doesn't know what they have in store for him, but to judge by the training he is being put through, it may be a great battle with all of Rome looking on.
~ Franz Kafka
What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
~ Ben Parr
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
~ Tacitus
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~ Bernard Law Montgomery
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
~ Sun Tzu
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
~ Thomas Paine
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
~ John Stuart Mill
Few Indians realise that the shift towards a market economy requires us to be alert and to fight for our rights and very few of us are willing to spare the time or money for such battles.
~ Sucheta Dalal
War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.
~ George Vecsey
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
~ Thomas Sowell
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
~ Abraham Kuyper