Quotes About Conflict

It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.

Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it.

My mother taught me long ago that only madmen fight wars they cannot win.

One war ends, another begins.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

Why do boys so love to play at war?

A small victory, Catelyn thought when the fighting had ended and the surviving foemen had melted back into the night, yet a victory nonetheless.

Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He

There is no wine so sweet as wine taken from a foe.

even as she was feeling sorry for him she was killing him, shouting, "Winterfell! Winterfell!" while Hot Pie screamed "Hot Pie!" beside her as he hacked at the man's scrawny neck.

what is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?" "Everything." said Davos, softly.

Just because a man can sing about battles doesn't mean he's fit to fight one.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

going?" he asked, stepping toward her. For reply she only laughed, the most unpleasant laugh he had ever heard from her, and, stepping through, closed the door. Before he could reach it she had bolted it. He went immediately into the hall, but all the other doors to their suite were also locked.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

hatred and prejudice always go over big. These people have been raised on the Negro problem, they're used to it,

Revolutions… have put one half of France in mourning for the other.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.

Power and honour don't share the same bed,