All Quotes By Tag: Battle

“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.”

“having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.”

“That’s a nice song,’ said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It’s an old soldiers’ song,’ he said. Really, sarge? But it’s about angels.’ Yes, thought Vimes, and it’s amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It’s a real soldiers’ song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. ‘I’ve seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.’ They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You’ll learn. I know you will.”

“Do not hate the player, nor the game…rule it!”

“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”

“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“Sensual living is a tool of happiness in the battle of life.”

“One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other’s military without battle is the most skillful.”

“Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils.”

“There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You’ll fight for it and you won’t win. But what really matters isn’t the war you’re waging, it’s that you don’t lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.”

“Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.”

“I cannot confuse the ‘battle’ with the ‘war’. For out of my weakness I am bound to lose a battle, but out of God’s strength I am guaranteed to win the war.”

“If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.”

“You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you “chicken man”?”

“Right,” Sadie said. “And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.”