Battle Quotes - Page 34

• The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Price Of Freedom, Willingness, Recklessness

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

  Cassandra Clare

  Growing Up, War, Sacrifice

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1203, Simon and Schuster

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• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

  Tom Clancy

  Wise, Real, Mistake

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

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• Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

  Julie Garwood

  War, Moving, Games

  Julie Garwood (1991). “The Prize”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

  Brian Jacques

  Law, Giving, Justice

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• Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Blow, Boys

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.33, Penguin

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• One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

  George R. R. Martin

  Horse, Fall, Green

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.59, Bantam

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• Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Want, Felt

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.821, Bantam

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• One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, Goal, Defence

  Louis Althusser, François Matheron, Olivier Corpet (2006). “Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87”, p.268, Verso

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• All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

  Paulo Coelho

  Teach, Fifth, Loses

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 24, 2014

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• Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Perfect, Doe

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3575, Delphi Classics

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• Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.

  John Flanagan

  Black, Trying, Bears

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• I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

  Philippa Gregory

  Ambition, Fighting, Insane

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

  Eileen Wilks

  Gun, Thinking, Broken

  Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.225, Penguin

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• Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.

  Sandra Fluke

  Country, Freedom, Badass

  Sandra Fluke's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Adversity, Acceptance

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.533, e-artnow

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• Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.

  George S. Patton

  Real, War, Home

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.

  William Wells Brown

  Struggle, Civilization, Rights

  "From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown".

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• When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hippie, Artist, Rights

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• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

  Alistair Cooke

  Morning, Golf, Player

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Engineering, Achievement

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Finding Yourself, Useless

  Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.10, Conari Press

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• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, Girl, Goodbye

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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