I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they’ve chosen, further than they might want to go.

fue una de las raras batallas en que los muertos victoriosos tienen peor entierro que los vencidos

The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

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

You better hope she doesn’t say a word,” Gabe warned, lifting a finger to Uri’s nose.Uri grabbed the finger laughing, “What are you going to do, cupcake? Seduce me to death, in all your sexy...

The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.

May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot...

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting...

With a snarling face, fangs and blood red eyes, she had lunged at him and secured her mouth to his throat before he had even had time enough to scream. It had been the most...

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself...

We are never out of clue; We are well-informed that the world is a cruel place yet we seem so surprised when new skirmish happens.

The more we prepare for war, the more we make it a reality. Yet, it would seem, to prepare for war may also be the best and possibly the only way to avoid it.’ –...

Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

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

Do not hate the player, nor the game…rule it!

I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to...

He didn’t know Rachel very well, but assumed her behavior would be similar to most women he encountered. As soon as he stepped foot inside she would attack, not allowing him to get in a...

Come,’ he said, ‘come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have...

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories...

For Hanalea the Warrior!

The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things that were fought somewhere else, won somehow, by someone, and lost...

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one’s homeland

We’ll never be ready. So I guess that means we’re as ready as we’ll ever be.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you’d better hope he’s half asleep.

You’re welcome in my house when this is over. We’ll open a cask of Master al’Vere’s best brandy. We’ll remember those who fell, and we’ll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned...

With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death.

Dunia ni uwanja wa vita wa vita ya dhambi ya vita ya maisha! Kuishi maisha ya kufikirika ni kushinda vita ya maisha ya vita ya dhambi. Vita ya dhambi ya vita ya maisha si vita...

Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The “self” produces desires that “you” must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It’s difficult, though rewarding!

…the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

Enójate, ponte furiosa si quieres, pero no dejes que esos sentimientos te duren más de 5 minutos, porque si lo permites, entonces habrás perdido la batalla.

Madoka: I’m always… making somebody else fight for me. I can’t do anything… Does that make me a coward?Kyōko: Why do you gotta be a magical girl?Madoka: “Why”…?Kyōko: …This work isn’t about playing around. When...

A areia não pode lutar contra o vento, o vento não pode lutar contra a montanha.Tudo e todos tem uma batalha para perder.

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of...

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to...

Michael staggered to his feet and turned to face his worst nightmare. Baal stood before him, a smirk on his face. He wore his signature grey, pinstripe, three-piece suit, and casually twisted his pinky ring...

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are...

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

There was nothing to see in the room, but his brain pulled multiple vivid memories to the forefront of his mind. Entering the house as husband and wife, with Angela holding onto his arm. The...

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren’t any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn’t necessarily even hear what...

You’ll do fine if you have any strength at all, but listen to your Green angel and give yourself more exit points. You’re in for some rude awakenings in battle, and young souls often retreat...

You must be a light unto yourself.

An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected...

Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can’t imagine doing that