Quotes About Battle

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.

The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the charge, death was a whore who did not care who she drew into her darkness, veteran knight or callow bachelor.

Across the hillside, above the chaos of Montfort's left flank, a scarlet banner was raised by Edward's men, the dragon at its centre a terror wreathed in golden flames, a sign that there was to be no mercy. The noblemen who survived the battle would be taken prisoner and ransomed, but no such chivalry awaited the foot soldiers beyond.

God will eventually win, even though I may not see it in my life. So my suffering is not meaningless, because I am part of a greater battle that will be victorious in the end. That is what our father showed us by his life.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

The 'Persian Wars', as the two campaigns of 490 BCE and 480–479 BCE have been known ever since, were over.

But then Cyrus was killed in a battle on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 BCE.

The campaign that cost Julian his life was part of a series of wars on the empire's eastern frontier

episodes of the war

Philip won the day. As many as half the Athenians and Thebans were either killed or taken prisoner.

there are many who date the end of 'classical' Greek civilisation to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE.

The decisive battle was fought at the beginning of August 338 BCE on the banks of the Cephisus River in Boeotia

was through the narrow pass known as Thermopylae, where the crags of Mount Oeta fell

The Byzantine governor assembled an army considerably larger than that of the Normans and rebels. He then sent a herald to the opposing camp offering either the Normans' safe return to Lombard territory or battle. In response, an enormous Norman knight smashed his mailed fist on the head of the Byzantine herald's horse; the horse fell dead on the spot. (Yes, this actually happened, historians agree.)23 The battle began the next day.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

And did not Spinoza's refusing to flee from excommunication by his church and community mean the same inner battle of integrity, the same struggle for the power not to be afraid of aloneness, without which the noble Ethics, certainly one of the great works of all time, could not have been written?

anxiety is evidence of a battle between our strength as a self on one side and a danger which threatens to wipe out our existence as a self on the other.

At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending.

Lottavo contro il sonno, che è sempre un po' ladro.

I battled my feelings of inferiority bravely, picking out a guest and imagining him floating in the air at the end of a line I held in my hand, with his stiff-legged trousers, his checked vest, and his yellow tie, propelled this way or that with a flick of my hand. It was the first time I had wielded my imagination as a weapon of defense, and nothing ever turned out to be more beneficial to me in this life.

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. And when the tides turn and the culture again celebrates what it means to be free, our battle will be won. It could happen in our time. It might happen after we are gone from this earth. But it will happen. Our job in this generation is to prepare the way.