Quotes of: Battle Keyword

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

Sun Tzu

A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.

Tonny K. Brown

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

Mark Hoppus

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

John Keegan

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

George Orwell

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Thomas Hobbes

[From trailer] Bard: Will you have peace, or war? Thorin Oakenshield: I will have war!

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Bilbo Baggins: [From trailer] When faced with death, what can anyone do?

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Bard: [to Thorin] You brought upon them only ruin and death.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Gandalf: The battle of Helm's Deep is over; the battle for Middle-earth is about to begin.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Jesus said “Give us THIS DAY our daily bread”, knowing that you cannot fight today’s battles with yesterday’s bread. Knowing that you cannot fight today’s battles with the hope of tomorrow’s bread.  Knowing that today you will be nourish...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

A Clash of Kings

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

Scapemaker

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Sometimes we need enemies more than we need friends. Mandy Walker

Public Battles, Private Wars

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

White: The Great Pursuit

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Tab Hunter

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

Shannon L. Alder

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

William L. Jenkins