1,797 Quotes About Battle
- Author Bernard Cornwell
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The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird’s wing beating, the world seems unreal.
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- Author Arash Pakravesh
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Be the last soldier in a never-ending battle, life is nothing more...
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- Author Steven Magee
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The global population is fighting a losing battle with man-made environmental radiation.
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- Author Hiroshi Sakurazaka
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The armored infantry was Santa Claus, the battle was out Christmas. What else for the elves to do on Christmas Eve but to let their hair down and drink a a little eggnog.
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
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- Author Paulo Coelho
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Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
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- Author Nomthandazo Tsembeni
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Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.
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- Author Paulo Coelho
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Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
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- Author Bianca Frazier
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The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle.
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