Quotes About Strength

Don't "but" me, Glokta!' hissed Sult. 'Don't you dare "but" me, not today! You're not half as crippled as you could be! Not half as crippled, you understand?

You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.

No matter how great and glorious the making, time will unmake it. No matter how strong the word, strong the thought, strong the law, all must return to chaos.' Skifr jerked her head back and sent spit spinning high into the air, arcing neatly down and spattering on rusted metal. 'King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always.

Within reach of his hand, the Bloody-Nine was master. The

I'll kill them … I'll kill them … I'll kill them …" It hardly needed to be said. She was done with crying. T

In the songs, Angulf Clovenfoot's Gettlanders fell upon the Vanstermen like hawks from an evening sky. Master Hunnan's misfits fell on Rissentoft like a herd of sheep down a steep flight of steps.

I may be no kind of fisher, but I've always had a talent for making men bleed. Best put that stick down before I make you fucking eat it.

It can be pleasant to have someone weak leaning on you. It can make you feel strong. But there comes a point when they become a dead weight to carry.

Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

There used to be," she muttered, "but they whip it out of you. They whip you until they're sure there's nothing left." Yulwei stood there, with that pitying look on his face. Strange, how it didn't make her angry any more.

She hated walls. For her, they had always been the jaws of a trap. Ferro frowned at the bed. She hated beds, and couches, and cushions. Soft things make you soft, and she did not need them.

Hand of iron! Head of iron! Heart of iron!" And he lashed blindly with his sword over the shield wall. "Your death comes, sang the hundred!

and you have to have fear to have courage.

You can't understand! You're not...a man.' 'Had I been confused on that point, it was put beyond doubt when I pushed you out of my womb. Have you any notion how much you weighed as a baby? Spend two days shitting an anvil we'll talk again.

His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His

Magic fades from the world but, in truth, most problems have always been better solved with a few sharp words. Or a little sharp steel.

It has honesty, integrity. The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up!

Fear is like cold water. A little is a fine thing, if fixes you on what counts. But too much will freeze you.

Hay tareas para las que no valen los hombres de fiar. Los conejos se cazan con comadrejas, no con bueyes.

All things come to an end. He couldn't lift the old sword any more. There was no strength left. Nothing. The room was growing blurry. All things come to an end, but some only lie still, forgotten… There was a cold feeling in Logen's stomach, a feeling he hadn't felt for a long time. "No," he whispered. "I'm free of you." But it was too late. Too late…

El valor puede obtenerse de muchos lugares y estar compuesto de muchos elementos diversos, de tal modo que en un momento determinado es posible que el cobarde de ayer se convierta en el héroe de mañana.