Top 1200 Epic Battle Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

For those who are fighters rather than defeatists, a battle is over when it's impossible to win.

I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

The next battle being fought by e-commerce companies will be for customer loyalty.

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world from colonialism. Of course the West never forgave Russia for fighting the epic battles against its expansionism and colonialism.

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.

Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.

I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.

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

He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

If we have to battle through some adversity during the year, sometimes that can be the best thing for a team.

When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

At the time of 'The Epic,' as a core band, we were all spending so much time apart making music for other people that by the time we got together - even though we grew up together and there's a special connection we have - it was like a rare privilege to come together.

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

In Europe we know that the great teams always improve and we will have to do battle with them.

I love films. It's really funny, actually. Like, I see a lot of smaller movies. But a lot of these big, epic films that everyone's like, 'You have to see,' I haven't watched yet.

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.

Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.