Battle quotes

“In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil.”
Dame Judi Dench - Aereon

“We kill for our future. We kill for peace.”
Geoffrey Rush - Ephraim

“Listen sweetheart, the main thing is, you have to fight the battle.”
Soni Razdan - Saroj Rai

“A wise general always leaves the road open for retreat.”

Frankie Thomas - Ted Nickerson

“- Captain Nemo: We have trouble.
- Mr. Hyde: Trouble? I call it sport.”
Naseeruddin Shah - Captain Nemo
Jason Flemyng - Mr. Edward Hyde

“- Riddick: You don't care if you live or die?
- Kyra: If I kill them first, not really.”
Vin Diesel - Riddick
Alexa Davalos - Kyra

“The race is not for the swift, nor the battle for the strong, But time and chance happens to them all. Fate's hand falls suddenly, who can say when it falls?”
Michael Lonsdale - Papa

“The battle is over, but the galaxy spaning adventures of the Transformers will continue and the greatest Autobot of them all - Optimus Prime - will return.”
Victor Caroli - Narrator

“- Gryphon: They come, your highness, in numbers and weapons far greater than our own.
- Oreius: Numbers do not win a battle.
- Peter Pevensie: No... but I bet they help.”
Cameron Rhodes - Gryphon
Patrick Kake - Oreius
William Moseley - Peter Pevensie

“- Beowulf: This is not battle, Wiglaf. This is slaughter.
- Wiglaf: The Frisians want to make themselves heroes, my lord. They want the bards to sing of their deeds.
- Beowulf: It's going to be a short song.”
Ray Winstone - Beowulf
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf

“The more you resist, the greater the damage will be.”
Thandie Newton - Dame Vaako

“- Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin: There's a pattern emerging, a definite pattern. I repeat that game. I've beaten him. And his moves are repeated moves. I must keep track of every second. Every second.
- Natalia Katkov: It sounds like such a lonely battle.”

John Turturro - Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin
Emily Watson - Natalia Katkov

“Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?”

Brad Pitt - Achilles

“Anger was our best weapon that day.”

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Kate Bighead

“- Gamling: Too few have come. We cannot defeat the armies of Mordor.
- Theoden: No. We cannot. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”
Bruce Hopkins - Gamling
Bernard Hill - Theoden

“This time we win or we die trying.”
Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree

“All those poets, on all those worlds; the ones who spoke of battle being such an unsightly thing? They never stood here.”
Colm Feore - Lord Marshal

“- Grandpa: Two lessons you have to learn from this battle. Lesson 1, never attack unless you're gonna win.
- Colt: And lesson two?
- Grandpa: Don't climb a tree that's full of thorns.”
Victor Wong - Grandpa
Max Elliott Slade - Colt

“- Sgt. Botnick: The Romans invented the military cut. You know why?
- Andy Barclay: Why?
- Sgt. Botnick: To keep their hair short, so their enemies couldn't grab a hold of it in battle and slit their throat.”
Andrew Robinson - Sergeant Botnick
Justin Whalin - Andy Barclay

“Hundreds of thousands will fighting to return home. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A ninja loves nature, 'cause he is part of nature. A ninja never fights a battle if he cannot win.”
Chad Power - Tum Tum

“- Gunnery Sgt. Burns: You are probably very familar with the conflict at Hill 442. Is that right?
- Ruggieri: Yes sir. Everyone has heard of that battle.
- Gunnery Sgt. Burns: And did you know your Colonel is personally responsible for pulling 52 marines off that hill? Alive. So don't you think the Colonel deserves to have his rocks painted tops...” (continue)(continue reading)

Fred Dryer - Gunnery Sgt. Burns
Sasha Mitchell - Ruggieri

“This is battle! And battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. But what you don't do is share command! It's never a good idea!”

John Travolta - Vic Deakins

“- Bill: Okay, wait, if we were one of Europe's greatest leaders, and we were stranded in San Dimas for one day, where would we go?
- Bill, Ted: Waterloo!”
Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“- Jax: Are we really ready to die here?
- Liu Kang: If we die, we will die in battle. Together.”
Lynn "Red" Williams - Jax
Robin Shou - Liu Kang