Battle proverbs

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

- T.F. Hodge98

◆ Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

- Jacqueline Carey98

◆ 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.

- Steve Maraboli98

◆ And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

- J.R.R. Tolkien98

◆ a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

- James A. Michener98

◆ To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

- Leo Tolstoy98

◆ All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

- Teresa of ávila98

◆ Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

- Joseph Bruchac98

◆ Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

- Leon Uris98

◆ Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

- Jeremy Aldana98

◆ We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can.

- Koushun Takami98

◆ Na sir ‘s na seachainn an cath. Neither seek nor shun the fight.

- Rae Lori98

◆ No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet.

- George R.R. Martin98

◆ For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

- Robert Louis Stevenson98

◆ Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

- Donna Lynn Hope98