Battle Quotes
Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, ” Logan said, Silver Frost.
When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.
I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.
On days such as this, Death’s long shadow hung like a broken halo over everyone—a sign of things to come.
Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.
Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword.
There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.
Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.
We took off for the tree line, leaving the wounded soldiers to wonder how they'd been beaten by four misfits and a horse.
Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it…nothing else comes close.
Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.
To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.
Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.
Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party.
We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence.
If they saw men swarming up the wall, if they saw the axes chopping at our shields on the wall’s top, then they would join the battle. Men want to be on the winning side.
Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.
My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.
Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.
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.
The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander
Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.
Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.
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.
