Battle Quotes

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.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance t...

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palesti...

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...

Certain battles were won by retreating.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of ...

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's m...

The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more tha...

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter ...

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I...

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...

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

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird o...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...

Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's...

Fighting is better than this waiting,” Brienne said. “You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You...

The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it oft...

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors...

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for ...

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

Never speak of defeat before battle.

The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. Th...

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A runnin...

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into batt...

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, fro...

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army ...

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither...

Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,An...

Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a dar...

Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it ...

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I...

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; l...

You must be a light unto yourself.

When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at ...

Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders...

What is going to happen to the Aurorans?""They are prisoners of war," Albion said. "I should imagine...

It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent...

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bib...

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between t...

Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything cool...

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public poli...

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marl...

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Aust...

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because ...