Battle Quotes

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I ...

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

You cannot choose your battlefield,God does that for you;But you can plant a standardWhere a standar...

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret...

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...

A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborio...

[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"[Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to...

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronge...

The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on o...

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is strong...

We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out...

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victor...

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the wi...

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance fro...

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with impla...

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'...

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven...

Bashere shrugged, grinning brhind his grey-streaked moustaches, "When I first slept in a saddle, Mua...

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

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

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one...

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new r...

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but ...

Maketa,” I said, throwing myself down in the sand. “I lost. The ocean won.”She smiled. “Was it a goo...

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. I...

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t...

I am the wind...I am death.

Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want o...

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military...

When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?

Every battle is won before it is fought.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, w...

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...

That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time....

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will ...

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to p...

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldie...

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues...

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on ...

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of th...

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage i...

Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a...

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss ...

Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot ...

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehuman...

She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wante...

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building politi...

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who ...

That joy. That madness. The gods must feel this way every moment of every day. It is as if the world...

Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the o...

Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of l...

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...

I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall...

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spea...

Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...

An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes...

If they saw men swarming up the wall, if they saw the axes chopping at our shields on the wall’s top...

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matte...

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with ...

I thought you were dead." Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the...

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive e...

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a b...

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Th...

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always ...

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and h...

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the r...

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.