#battle

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#blood #dangerous #fight #hot #knowledge

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#bath #battle #blood #concerned #election

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#fame #field #i #i think #killed

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness. ↗

— William Slim

#dominant #feeling #loneliness

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#diagram #each #eight #first #having

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#given #politics #spectacle #way

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. ↗

— Brady Anderson

#because #biggest #funny #health #me

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#battle #conflict #extreme #i #ideologies

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#actor #battles #being #else #gay

Battle is an orgy of disorder. ↗

— George S. Patton

#disorder