Quotes About Warriors
I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
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My finger travels the longest carved line on the face, the thickest welt, up that face. From the base of the jaw all the way up the cheek, stopping just short of the abalone shell eye. These lines cut into the wood are meant to mimic the ancient facial tattoos that marked these ancestors as men, as warriors, as worthy of carrying their lineage back into the place of death and yet forward into the place of tomorrow.
~ Chris Abani
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Lamanite warriors love to interrupt any time a Nephite opens his mouth
~ Chris Heimerdinger
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the appearance of Scandinavian Vikings in Ireland, Britain and Francia.
~ Chris Wickham
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These are not soldiers, these are men. They are notadventurers or warriors, designed for human butchery - as butchers or cattle. They are the ploughmen or workers that one recognizes even in their uniforms. They are uprooted civilians. They are ready, waiting for the signal for death or murder, but when you examine their faces between the vertical ranks of bayonets, they are nothing but men.
~ Henri Barbusse
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He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Of course, if everybody insists on it, there's no help for it.… But believe me, my dear boy, the two most powerful warriors are patience and time:
~ Leo Tolstoy
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The ground before the castle had grown a crop of armed men.
~ Leon Garfield
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The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men.
~ Leon Garfield
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The way I heard it was in the old days long time ago they had this Scalp Society for warriors who killed or touched dead enemies. They had things they must do otherwise K'oo'ko wouldn't haunt their dreams with her great fangs and everything would be endangered. Maybe the rain wouldn't come or the deer would go away. That's why they had things they must do The flute and dancing blue cornmeal and hair-washing. All these things they had to do.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
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What is more to the point, this passiveness, this submissiveness, to say nothing of the lack of weapons, made it easy for small bodies of hunters to draw tribute-in present-day usage 'protection money'-from much larger communities of farmers. Thus the rise of warriors, so to speak in paradox, preceded war.
~ Lewis Mumford
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We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.
~ Scott Coker
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Excuse me," Winter objected. "Dragons my age are seasoned warriors where I come from. We guard the queen all the time in the Ice Kingdom.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
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Cold War teaches the same lesson as World War II and, for that matter, most wars in recent history. Don't let a ruling class of warriors and politicians squash the entrepreneurs. The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.
~ Paul Graham
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Then, we warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor even though we may not understand how.
~ Paulo Coelho
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This is why they are warriors of the light. Because they err. Because they question. Because they seek a reason - and they will surely find it.
~ Paulo Coelho
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It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure. Now get out there and buy yourself something nice. Your future deserves it.
~ Dave Rubin
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Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds (20) In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol. The
~ William Shakespeare
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Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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Here we stir the embers of the past and light the beacons of the future. Old flags are raised anew; the passions of vanished generations awake; beneath the shell-torn soil of the twentieth century the bones of long dead warriors and victims are exposed, and the wail of lost causes sounds in the wind.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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Ten million homes awaited the return of the warriors. A hundred cities prepared to acclaim their triumphs. But all were defeated; all were stricken; everything that they had given was given in vain. The hideous injuries they inflicted and bore, the privations they endured, the grand loyalties they exemplified, all were in vain. Nothing was gained by any.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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if I must add one word of criticism to the Vikings [it is] that they were entirely lacking in any conception of neutrality.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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The goddess of Battles visits warriors only once. He who does not grasp her at such a moment never reaches her again.
~ Winston S. Churchill
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