Last Battle Quotes

#1. In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#2. The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.

J. Christopher Herold

#3. I am Birgitte Silverbow," Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. "The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!

Robert Jordan

#4. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

Eric Burdon

#5. You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

George Armstrong Custer

#6. The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

Robert Jordan

#7. There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

George S. Patton

#8. Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Helene Deutsch

#9. A final stand, then. One last battle. At least he could say that he had fought. When he met his brothers and sisters on the far side of death, he would tell them that he had not yielded. He might have betrayed everything that they had been bred for, but he had never yielded.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#10. A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death ... He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.

Carlos Castaneda

#11. I've always welcomed war, but when the last battle ends, what life is left for a warrior?

Andrea Cremer

#12. Werewolves are the guardians of humanity, and their form should be purer while exorcised. They'll be assets in the last battle.

S.M. Reine

#13. They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.

George R R Martin

#14. Meralda opened her eyes. "I'm for a bath," she said. "Now, and Yvin be hanged."

Shingvere crowed. "At last, our battle cry," he said. "A bath, and the king be hanged!" he shouted, brandishing his fork. "Clean clothes, then victory!

Frank Tuttle

#15. This was how I was going to die - not in battle, not from the plot of some Council member hell-bent on destroying me, but trampled to death by a bunch of pure-bloods. Of all the ways to die.

I was so going to haunt every last one of them.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. The man still fighting last week's battle will always lose to the man already fighting tomorrow's,

Brian Staveley

#17. Michael felt as if his heart might burst. With the death of the council he had felt as though he had lost everything that mattered to him, but here in his arms, he found the last piece of hope he had left in the world. We have to go back and help Gabe.

Wendy Owens

#18. I kissed her, because 1) when you're a demigod going into battle, every kiss might be your last, and 2) I like kissing her.

Rick Riordan

#19. There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.

Anne Calhoun

#20. We don't know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

K. Howard Joslin

#21. In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.

Ronald Dunn

#22. They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#23. It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

Cassandra Clare

#24. In a way, 'On the Road's greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.

Tony D'Souza

#25. Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

Damon Galgut

#26. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

C.S. Lewis

#28. It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

Horatio Nelson

#29. This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight ... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Barbara Walters

#30. Getting her back the last time was a battle. This time, it's going to take a war.

Stylo Fantome

#31. In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Thor Heyerdahl

#32. Sometimes we want to keep the battle going...until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don't forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me.

Kate McGahan

#33. During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

John Boyd Orr

#34. I've known the thrill of winning a tough ball game and of winning a golf match on the last hole. But to me the biggest thrill is to win the big one - the spiritual battle of life.

Billy Graham

#35. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#36. If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

C.S. Lewis

#37. The lowest form of war is To attack Cities. Siege warfare Is a last resort ... The Skillful Strategist Defeats the enemy Without doing battle, Captures the city Without laying siege, Overthrows the enemy state Without protracted war.34

Henry Kissinger

#38. She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

Libba Bray

#39. Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation ...

Qurratulain Hyder

#40. I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Emma Watson

#41. No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

Enoch Powell

#42. The antagonistic exponents of freedom and absolutism must thus meet at last and then will be fought the mighty battle on which the world will look with breathless interest; for on its issue the freedom or the slavery of the world will depend.

Christopher Hitchens

#43. We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

Marc Levine

#44. I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

Peter Mayhew

#45. There's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all? - Paul Hudson

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#46. If his life depended on it, he
had to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last drop
of blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#47. Wells?" Someone was prodding his arm. "Hey, Wells?" Wells's eyes snapped open, draining the last droplets of a dream from his mind. He'd been floating down a canal in Venice. No, wait, he'd been riding a horse into battle alongside Napoleon. Kendall

Kass Morgan

#48. The Elizabethan Failure may engage in battle, but the blow that fells him will most likely be an accidental one. And the cup of water so gallantly offered will, at the last moment, slip from his weak grasp, thus rendering two people thirsty instead of one.

Naomi Neale

#49. People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.

Kerri Walsh

#50. Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

C.S. Lewis

#51. Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living ... that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

Charles Spurgeon

#52. The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

William Wells Brown

#53. Kiss me, Hardy!' Weren't those Nelson's last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don't cry. We're still alive and we make a sensational team.

Elizabeth Wein

#54. At long last, the battle has ended!
And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!

Kwame Nkrumah

#55. Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

Roger Zelazny

#57. The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

Greg Norman

#58. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown ... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#59. Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

Alexander Payne

#60. For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

Shaquille O'Neal