#Battle

"To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind"

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."

"My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition."

"If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s."

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."

"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."

"My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship."

"having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide."

"Right,"Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death."

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

"Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!"

"You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?"

"Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor."

"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."

"There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle."

"Know yourself better than your opponent knows you, know your opponent better than he knows himself, know yourself better than you know your opponent, and know you have all this knowledge and you will be victorious. That’s the advice I’ll give my clone before I defeat him in battle."

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole."

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."