Battle Quotes - Page 22

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started going to watch battles and eventually thought to myself, "I'm definitely as good as some of these guys, and maybe even better than them".

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.