Quotes About Battle

Who is God except our Lord? Who is a rock except our God? The God who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless. He makes me as sure footed as a deer so that I can stand on the mountain tops. He trains my hands for battle so that I can bend a bow of bronze. You have given me the shield of your salvation. Your help has made me great. I pursued my enemies and overcame them. I did not turn back until they were destroyed.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

We'll start firing till they drop or we drop.

Your demons are always with you," Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. "Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

If we're gonna die, let's do it freakin' fighting!

En su mente y en su corazón se había desencadenado una batalla de emociones. Confusión. Curiosidad. Pánico. Miedo. Pero mezclada con todo eso, había una oscura sensación de absoluta desesperanza, como si el mundo se hubiera acabado, borrado de su cabeza, y hubiese sido reemplazado por algo terrible. Quería correr y esconderse de esa gente.

The anticipation of fighting was almost worse than the fear of it.

Tonight, they'd fight. Tonight, they'd make their stand, once and for all.

Los nervios previos a la batalla eran todavía peores que el miedo en sí.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

The heavy fumes of gunpowder hanging about our ranks, as stimulating as sparkling wine, charged the atmosphere with the light and splendor of battle. Time was culminating under a flowing tide.

His game of hide-and-seek about Bull Bun, Centreville, and Manassas Plains was grand, but marred in completeness by the failure of General A. P. Hill to meet his orders for the afternoon of the 28th. As a leader he was fine; as a wheel-horse, he was not always just to himself. He was fond of the picturesque.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness,—that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war,—being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

Opinion was then expressed that the fifteen thousand men who could make successful assault over that field had never been arrayed for battle; but he was impatient of listening, and tired of talking, and nothing was left but to proceed.

More than twice as many Americans lost their lives in one day at Sharpsburg as fell in combat in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American war combined.

The custodians of that memory won their postwar battle to celebrate the South's Lost Cause as a valiant crusade for constitutional liberties and state's rights that was overwhelmed only by brute force.

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

Men were made for war; designed to struggle and strive to protect and provide.

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity; if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. Erwin Rommel

It is the power of God operating through the teaching of his Word that alone has power "to demolish strongholds" (2 Cor. 10:4).

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

Writing is like a battle. You're often so into it you don't have any high ideals. You're just doing it. I have all these boxing prints on my walls. I always feel that's what I am, a boxer. I get my brains knocked out every so often.

The drone is the ultimate imperial weapon, allowing a superpower almost unlimited reach while keeping its own soldiers far from battle.