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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
— Thomas Hood
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
— Audre Lorde
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
— J. F. C. Fuller
And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a pleasure - if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.
— Karen Marie Moning
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle ... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
— George S. Patton Jr.
And we screamed. We screamed our war cry, our shout of slaughter, our joy of being men in battle who are driven by terror.
— Bernard Cornwell
Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
— Sun Tzu
Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars.
— Nina Mason
The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.
— J. Christopher Herold
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
— M.F. Moonzajer
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
— Leon Uris
Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.
— Kami Garcia
A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.
— Rick Riordan
Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first.
— George R R Martin
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
— James A. Garfield
You can't expect to win the war if you send archers into battle armed with only a bow and an empty quiver.
— Diane Condon-Boutier
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
— Jim Ramstad
Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie
and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
— Homer
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
— Abraham Lincoln
If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.
— Neil Gaiman
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.
— Alan Kinross
Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.
— Alex London
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
— James Baldwin
Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.
— Paul Ryan
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
— A.J. Hartley
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
— Herbert Hoover
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
— Philip Sheridan
I won the vote but shunned the soft parade
[ ... ]
I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo) — Shannon McNally
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I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo) — Shannon McNally
For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
— George R R Martin
Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle.
But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it. — Girish Kohli
But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it. — Girish Kohli
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Everything is a battle, every breath is a war, and I don't think I'm winning anymore.This Thinking is called Depression.
— Unknown
In life, toughness and roughness go together.
— Auliq Ice
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
So in that dark and tangled night,
the chaw of chaws rose to flight,
with talons bloodied, feathers singed.
A battle won - a war begins! — Kathryn Lasky
the chaw of chaws rose to flight,
with talons bloodied, feathers singed.
A battle won - a war begins! — Kathryn Lasky
And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.
— Sun Tzu
The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.
— Anthony Liccione
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war,
— Benjamin Netanyahu
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
— Edmund H. North
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
— Shannon L. Alder
Art is the war against what we do not choose to feel. It's the battle of color, words, sound, and shape, and it rages for or against love.
— Tarryn Fisher
When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.
— Debasish Mridha
To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.
— John Milton
That boy had betrayed his weakness in a single glance, had ceded the war for the sake of a single battle, and put Inej--all of them--in danger.
— Leigh Bardugo
Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.
— Catherine M. Wilson
Business is war and your past clients and customer's great online reviews are your elite soldiers in battle.
— Tom Kenemore
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I believes that economy is some kind of running war and the market is the battle field , So security is mandatory.
— Mohamed Saadi
Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.
— Nadege Richards
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.
— Jerry A. Coyne
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
— William Wallace
No war. Fight with your pen. Give your battle-cry in ink, and mark your dreams down on a page
— Susan Fletcher
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
— Murray Kempton
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
— Alexander Suvorov
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
— F. E. Adcock
Of course, there were only three kinds of battle to begin with: fucked up, seriously fucked up, and fucked up beyond all recognition
— Hiroshi Sakurazaka
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
— David Finkel
Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.
— Sophie Masson
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
— Louis Althusser
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
— Miyamoto Musashi