Battlefield Quotes

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.”
― Suzy Kassem

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth

“Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

“We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon the millions who ‘ran’ across bloodied battlefields so that we would have rights to declare, I think we’d do a whole lot less declaring and a whole more appreciating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Movies were a great distraction from the everyday horrors in the newspapers or on the radio. Some of the most popular movies were in a dark, moody style. Others, like this one, were comedies that many preferred for relief from the unrelenting stress that came with the realities of a devastating war…”
― A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: Leave Murder to the Professionals

“I wish the enemy would hesitate to shoot when they see me, but you can't expect humanitarianism on the battlefield.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“Once my father said that conflicts are between rulers. Those that follow rulers can be perfectly nice, which is how you wind up with two perfectly nice people with daggers to each other's throats. Hyacinthe and I might have been friends, but for the part where we were set on opposite sides of a battlefield.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“For this call was not the wearisome "general" before which the tents go down; it was the exhilarating "assembly," which goes to the heart as wine and stirs the blood like the kisses of a beautiful woman. Who that has heard it calling to him above the grumble of great guns can forget the wild intoxication of its music?”
― Ambrose Bierce, What I Saw at Shiloh

“My aching, bloodied fingers dug into dented armour and clammy, stiff flesh as I heaved away the last of the High Fae corpses piled atop the fallen Illyrian soldier.

The dark hair, the golden-brown skin... The same as Cassian's.

But it was not Cassian's death-grey face that gaped at the sky.

My breath whooshed from me, my lungs still raw from roaring, my lips dry and chapped.

I needed water- badly. But nearby, another set of Illyrian wings poked up from the piled dead.

I mumbled and lurched toward it, letting my mind drift someplace dark and quiet while I righted the twisted neck to peer at the face beneath the simple helm.

Not him.

I picked my way through the corpses to another Illyrian.

Then another. And another.

Some I knew. Some I didn't. Still the killing field stretched onward under the sky.

Mile after mile. A kingdom of the rotting dead.

And still I looked.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Paint that when we get home.

Busybody.

I peered over my shoulder to Rhys, who stepped up to our little circle in the grass. His face remained more haggard than usual, lines of strain bracketing his mouth. And I realised... I would not get that last night with him. Last night- that had been the final night. We'd spent it winnowing-

Don't think like that. Don't go into this battle thinking you won't walk off again. His gaze was sharp. Unyielding.

Breathing became difficult. This break is the last time we'll all be here- talking.

For this final leg of the march we were about to embark on... It would take us right to the battlefield.

Rhys lifted a brow. Would you like to go into that wagon for a few minutes, then? It's a little cramped between the weapons and supplies, but I can make it work.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”
― Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

“Levantó mi mano, la abrió y apoyó sus labios contra ella, y esa sensación me atravesó y me conectó a la realidad. Luego sus labios encontraron los míos en la oscuridad, suaves y cálidos, y encajaron perfectamente.
"Qnd eldr. - susurré el grito de batalla contra sus labios.
Respira fuego
Sonrió. Luego puso su mano detrás de mi cabeza y besó mi mejilla.
"Qnd eldr.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“God is fighting your battles, whether you know it or not. When He allows you to go onto a battlefield, it is because He knows you will win it and should you lose a battle, God knows you will learn from it.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“If you want to be a victor on the battlefield, go on your knees and call upon the God of all victories.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Cassian said to Rhys, to me, to Nesta, 'I'll see you on the other side.'

I knew he didn't mean the battlefield.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Not every battle is a call to arms.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The stock market is often likened to a battlefield, and for good reason. Both environments are fraught with uncertainty, risk, and the potential for both loss and gain.”
― Billy Polk, Soldier to Stockholder: Mastering the Stock Market with Military Precision

“The greatest battlefield is the one in your heart. And to ignore that battle is to make yourself the greatest enemy on that battlefield.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only he who wields the blade can truly command.”
― Aly M. A. Said, The Sapphire Shore

“Thus number 5 Cheyne Row is not so much a dwelling place as a battlefield—the scene of labour, effort and perpetual struggle. Few of the spoils of life—its graces and its luxuries—survive to tell us that the battle was worth the effort. The relics of drawing room and study are like the relics picked up on other battlefields.”
― Virginia Woolf, The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life

“The causes were complex - and distressingly simple - and the outcome was decisive. More than any other event in our nation's history, the Civil War set the direction for America's future. During the war almost 3 million Americans fought across battlefields that had been quiet farms, dusty roads, and country crossroads. In the four years of courage and despair, these battlefields earned somber distinction as hollowed ground.”
― Frances H. Kennedy, The Civil War Battlefield Guide

“Intent without action is the muse of those who wish to be the hero without stepping onto the battlefield.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Liberty and freedom will never be without its enemies, for such things are entirely perilous for those who subvert any passion for the good of their fellowman and force authoritarian, totalitarian, and other such regimes on repressed peoples. Yet, may we as American’s construct a nation united with such force and depth of determination that our enemies both home and abroad will find themselves decisively defeated before they ever step on the battlefield.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Living with a stutter is like fighting in a battlefield. You either slay the words, or get slain by words.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Between his howls of torment, his rediscovered English told me a lot. An earth shattering storm was about to hit, but not this one with wind and water. Between bits and pieces and shocking details, he begged me to kill him. “Matame!” He shouted. “Matame! Por favor! Matame, senor!"

I waited. He talked. I could hardly believe what I heard. But it was definitely a deathbed confession. I knocked a smoke loose from its box, hunched over and fought off the wind and rain and lit it. “Nothing I can do for you, pal. You’re gonna die; and mercy killing is against the law.” I stripped the magazine out of his AK-47 and slipped it into one of my pockets.

“There’s one shot,” I said. I checked the chamber of the gun, tossed the rifle into the sand ten yards behind him. When I walked away, he was still talking, screaming actually. Sayanara, bitch.”
― Robert Workman, Immigration Invasion! A Family Affair

“The courtroom is a battlefield and every truth has its casualties.”
― Richard Herman

“The stakes are too high to use the battleground as the training ground.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil beneath them was already drowned in blood and bone, too rotten to let life truly take root.”
― Maggie Sn