Quotes About Adversity

Play with the devil, Finan said, and you get burned.

A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that.

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.' 'What's that?' 'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.' Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked. 'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir?

There's a time for caution,' I said, 'and a time to just kill the bastards.

All that was needed to get ahead in the world was a bit of sense and the ability to kick a bastard faster than the bastard could kick you, and Richard Sharpe reckoned he had those talents right enough.

Do you know who wins battles, boy?" "We do, Father." "The side that is least drunk," he said, and then, after a pause, "but it helps to be drunk." "Why?" "Because a shield wall is an awful place." He gazed into the fire. "I have been in six shield walls," he went on, "and prayed every time it would be the last.

In breve, eravamo soddisfatti, e il destino è sempre stato nemico della soddisfazione. Il destino inoltre, come mi aveva sempre detto Merlino, è inesorabile.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," Baird said, "and you don't piddle away your damned life because you don't like His dispositions.

Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.

Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade.

Sharpe, for most of the

Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once

I remember Ravn, the blind poet and father to Ragnar, often telling me that courage was like a horn of ale. "We begin with a full horn, boy," he had told me, "but we drain it. Some men drain it fast, maybe their horn was not full to begin with, and others drain it slowly, but courage lessens as we age.

So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said

You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.

Para algo que ha salido chorreando del culo de una cabra, no eres del todo inútil .

He's like a man putting wattle hurdles in the face of a flood. -Brace a hurdle well and it'll turn a stream.

You're a boy playing in men's games, Sharpie, and you're going to lose unless you're a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, Sharpie, but you're not man enough, are you?

Have you ever fought in a battle? I know you burned down my barns, but that isn't a battle, you stinking piece of rat-gristle. A battle is the shield wall. It's smelling your enemy's breath while he tries to disembowel you with an ax, it's blood and shit and screams and pain and terror. It's trampling in your friends' guts as enemies butcher them. It's men clenching their teeth so hard they shatter them. Have you ever been in a battle?

I'm in pain all the time," I said, "and if I gave in to it then I'd do nothing.

When Odin lost an eye, he gained wisdom, but when Svein lost an eye he learned fear.

The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is.

Enemies come soon in man's life, you don't need to seek them out.