Quotes About Warriors

but the vikings who targeted Kent and Hampshire are likely to have come directly from Scandinavia

Then, in the summer of 991, a much larger force arrived from Scandinavia.

Hastein's wife and sons were

their ealdormen and their thegns, who in turn called upon the services of their own followings of well-equipped warriors.

It was not only the Saxon's ferocity and fearlessness that perturbed his opponents, but his paganism.

following day they encountered the entire viking army at a place called Edington,

Gone are the Kings, gone are their towering prows, Vanished upon the raging deep, alas, The long-haired warrior heroes of Hellas.

Someone described us as the shadow warriors.

Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured around the actions of women, does contain extensive portrayals of motherhood and peace-weaving marital compromise, female warriors, and speculation on what it means to lose a son.

Spaghetti is no food for fighters.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

God warriors do not linger in temptation. They never test their strength against lust-they run!

and as long as his themes of anti-heroes, anti-war, and anti-military went along the lines and current trend his editor wanted, everybody was content. Text on battle scenes and true warriors was not in vogue; text about crazed G.I.s and bumbling generals was very much in demand.

We need to avoid the ditch on the left, where we don't call sin a sin, as well as the ditch on the right, where we are angry culture warriors battling unbelievers instead of evangelizing them.

Los heterosexuales occidentales tienen tendencia a encasillar a los varones homosexuales en el estereotipo de lo afeminado. Sin embargo, desde los puntos de vista histórico y etnográfico, la forma más frecuente de relación homosexual institucionalizada se da entre hombres instruidos no para ser peluqueros o decoradores, sino guerreros.

Teutonic Order," wearing black crosses on their shoulders, which, after fraternizing with the Livonian Knights, was going to absorb them—together with some other things—into their own more powerful organization. Russia had no armed warriors to meet these steel-clad Germans and Livonians.

In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.

The summer grasses Of brave soldiers' dreams The aftermath.

??? ???? ??? The summer grasses— For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams. - Donald Keene, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, New York, 1999, p. 316 (Translation: Donald Keene)

His supreme achievement in 1940 was to mobilize Britain's warriors, to shame into silence its doubters, and to stir the passions of the nation, so that for a season the British nation faced the world united and exalted. The "Dunkirk spirit" was not spontaneous. It was created by the rhetoric and bearing of one man, displaying powers that will define political political leadership for the rest of time.

Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.

Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.