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Quotes About Battle

You can spot, for instance, where the buying is only a trifle better than the selling. A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.
~ Edwin Markham
Everyone stays in a silent war for its interests and goals, some with fun and some with the gun, in various contexts.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Life is an unending battle. One has to face that and breathe to overcome again and again until the soul flies out from the entity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The highest victories' victory of universal truth in the universe is the battle of Karbala, and the precious proof of truthfulness is the sacrifices of Hussain Ibn-e- Ali.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Still, in a fight like that, you never know. There's a superhuman element involved. All warriors have to face it; winning or losing is partly a matter of luck.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Tidak pantas bagi seorang samurai untuk memetik bunga di pinggir jalan ketika sedang berangkat ke medan perang (Read: Sekolah yang benar dulu lah, gak usah pacaran segala).
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
whereas the Franks fought at a disadvantage in every respect, because of the weight of their armor and the unevenness of the ground. Eggihard, the King's steward; Anselm, Count Palatine; and Roland, Governor of the March of Brittany, with very many others, fell in this engagement.
~ Einhard
I became disenchanted. My first impression, that of finding myself part of a fearless battle, passed. The trepidation at every exam and the joy of passing it with the highest marks had faded. Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.
~ Elena Ferrante
A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn't accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.
~ Elena Ferrante
Un libro, un articolo potevano far rumore, ma il rumore si levava anche dai guerrieri antichi prima della battaglia e se non si accompagnava a una forza reale e a una violenza senza misura era solo teatro.
~ Elena Ferrante
We shall go on and we shall fight it out, here or elsewhere, and if this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
~ Anthony McCarten
Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.
~ Anthony McGowan
If wars were fought only by the men on the ground, the men facing one another in real battle, most wars would end quickly and sensibly. Men are smart and men are animals, in that they don't want to die so simply for so little.
~ Anthony Swofford
Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A person who is an ethically right has to only fight for own rights against the big battalion of the population, but one is wrong morally can go easily long in relationship with the billions of people.
~ Anuj Somany
Some Saian mountaineer Struts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ran When the fighting got hot. Life seemed somehow more precious. It was a beautiful shield. I know where I can buy another Exactly like it, just as round.
~ Archilochus
In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!
~ Arina Tanemura
At the core, to be a man you had to be willing to lose your life in battle, willing to use your strength to protect the weak. Who today was remembering all that?
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I found that life was a continual struggle for most of us-and this on a plane not much above that of the struggle of wild animals-and that society dismissed this obvious truth as a negligible factor in determining human conduct as well as our mental and physical well-being. I began to see that this economic battle persisted even in the midst of an exhaustless plenty, and that most humans lived and died trying to succeed in a material sense, in short, to reach the goal of a triumphant animalism.
~ Art Young
The quick knockouts are nice, but going through a war now and again is a good experience to know I've done it.
~ Derek Brunson
All quiet along the Potomac.
~ George B. McClellan
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
~ Pierre Corneille
You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.
~ Josh Barnett