Quotes About Conquest

Lust? Who's talking about lust? You want to screw her, right? So that's your objective. All you need now is deployment of the appropriate tactics to manoeuvre her into an advantageous position and then secure your conquest. Then it's just a question of mopping up.

The Russian empire, it is estimated, grew by fifty-five square miles (142 square kilometres) per day after the Romanovs came to the throne in 1613, or 20,000 square miles a year. By the late nineteenth century, they ruled one sixth of the earth's surface—and they were still expanding. Empire-building was in a Romanov's blood.

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

Without haste, without fear, we conquer the world.

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.

These dead bones have… quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

The problem with which man is faced cannot be answered by scientific inventions. The conquest of nature does not lie in evolving keener sight, swifter motion, larger strength. This is but magnification. which leaves the element of the problem untouched. Can you conquer, not nature, but the nature of things?

America is a very all-or-nothing society. We like the big win, the touchdown, the knockout in the first round. We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't only uncontested, it was positively devastating.

Wasn't this strategy, painting victory over defeat, the motive behind so many past wars?

Trapped him the gray people    as the great are brought down by the weak    when they are many As the hawk is mobbed by the roller birds    as the great sea eagle is brought down by gulls

Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.

She'd never thought of it as a colony. Instead it had been invaded, occupied, enslaved. She supposed colonized was more palatable to those who'd done it.

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

as the whole conquest never put the crown to any expense.

We were the wolf pack, we were the killers of Britain, we had fought from the south coast of Wessex to the northern wilds, from the ocean to the sea, and we had never been beaten, and these men knew it.

I stood on the dead horse and spread my arms. I held the shield high to my left and the sword to my right, and my mail coat was spattered with blood and the snow fell about my wolf-crested helmet and all I knew was the young man's joy of slaughter. I killed Ubba Lothbrokson! I shouted at them. I killed him! So come and join him! Taste his death! My sword wants you!

The English chevauchée was a tactic to destroy a country's power, to starve the lords of taxes, to burn their

For Arthur, at last, had come.