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Into Battle Quotes

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughtered just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.
- Cassandra Clare

Jace: My father belived in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'Because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughterred, just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.
- Cassandra Clare

Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway.
Lady Lavender by Lynna Banning
- Lynna Banning

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
- Lou Brock

...despite the headmaster's romantic claims that the origin of the cravat went back to the silk fascalia worn by Roman orators to warm their vocal cords, Langdon knew that, etymologically, "cravat" actually derived from a ruthless band of Croat mercenaries who donned knotted neckerchiefs before they stormed into battle. To this day, this ancient battle garb was donned by modern office warriors hoping to intimidate their enemies in daily boardroom battles.
- Dan Brown

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett

You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
- Orson Scott Card

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
- Queen Elizabeth Ii

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
- Barack Obama

Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs... you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice incredulous.
He laughed. "I would."
She smiled. "You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell
me another lie.
- Julie Garwood

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
- Terry Goodkind

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
- Terry Goodkind

Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
- Terry Goodkind

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
- John B Hood

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.
- Sophie Kinsella

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

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.
- Matthew Lillard

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
- Ted Lindsay

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
- John M Mchugh

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
- Golda Meir

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.
- Bernard Law Montgomery

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
- Johann Most

(General Wetjoen talking about the Boer War)Let him come! I have seen them come before -- at Margesfontein, Spion Kiopje, Modder River. Stepping into battle, left right left right, waving their silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they was, and with mine rifle I kills them so easy!
- Eugene O Neill

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
- Colin Powell

Bullshitting god would be Max's plan in a nutshell. Miles could even guess his father's opening gambit. He'd point out to God that if He expected better results, He ought to have given Max better character to work with, instead of sending him into battle so poorly equipped.
- Richard Russo

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.
- Cheryl Strayed

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
- Bennie Thompson

Dr Seraphina gazed at Gabriella with a cool, assessing eye. "What do you believe Gabriella?"
"I believe that if we do not protect our traditions from those who would destroy them, soon there will be nothing left to interpret."
"Ah, so you are a warrior, then," Dr Seraphina said, challenging Gabriella. "There are always thosewho would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
- Danielle Trussoni

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