Quotes About Battle

It's not about tippy-tappy, namby-pamby football. It's a battle, and we have to be ready for it.

You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.

That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.

I didn't use a voice change to do Bilbo. I have a distinctive voice anyway. I did an attitude change, making Bilbo kind of fussy - fussy and proper - then gradually dropped the fussiness and properness as the madness of battle really affects him.

I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.

I know that it's a fight at the end of the day; it's not a grappling match.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.

The problem is when you start comparing numbers to other point guards. The league is about numbers, and it's crazy. You make those comparisons, and I'm losing every battle.

If you don't have the confidence, that's half the battle. You're going to be defeated before you even start.

your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures?

Er, your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures?

Put on all of God's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. —Ephesians 6:11

My teeth warred in my mouth, the teeth above against the teeth below.

My men will follow me in battle," I told him. "You'll see." "Of course they will. They know you're a fine fighter. But where there is no danger, your danger will be from them." I

Every man fights backward to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing others, but in the killing of certain parts of himself.

The most famous footballing episode was Captain Nevill's kicking a ball into No Man's Land on the first day of the Somme. A prize was offered to the first man to dribble the ball into the German trenches; Nevill himself scrambled out of the trench in pursuit of his goal and was cut down immediately. (Perhaps the Somme was not only an indictment of military strategy but also of the British propensity for the long-ball game.)

I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.

Furthermore, one does not fight an enemy on the turf on which he is strongest, but where he is weakest.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

H]e was in another sort of contemplative mood perhaps more common in the young men of our day — that of questioning whether it were worth while to take part in the battle of the world: I mean, of course, the young men in whom the unproductive labor of questioning is sustained by three or five per cent on capital which somebody else has battled for.