Quotes About Conflict

Warships had brass battering rams on their prows, and the usual tactic was to ram the side of an enemy ship.

Near a place called Carrhae he came up against a force of about ten thousand mounted archers.

War is glorious and, at the same time, a great evil.

dozens of tribes and much given to piracy and brigandage.

it was unnerving that a stronghold of barbarism should lie so dangerously close to civilized Italy.

who decided to launch a military challenge against Octavian.

However, the senatorial extremists, increasingly sure of Pompey's support, refused to compromise.

THE GREAT-UNCLE 48–47 B.C.

squabbles between the signatories of the Treaty of Misenum

The plot was betrayed, but Varus could not bring himself to distrust his friendly Germans

Octavian's request was awkward, and Antony angrily refused it.

That said, he did not want Antony destroyed

Antony was furious and responded with threats.

The blow was devastating. The two men had been friends from boyhood

Give priests power and they soon start persecuting anyone who disagrees with them.

Euphrosyne leant forward, clasping her hands, and said to me: 'Have you killed him?' The question vexed me. It would have been civil to accompany it, at all events, with an inquiry as to my own health.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

That wasn't bad," Tom said. "Almost as good as Alex." "You've got to be kidding," Jack growled. "Alex would have blown them up or forced them off the road. Just a shame I forgot my hand grenade." "Next time," Tom said.

His parents were Turkish Cypriots who had emigrated to the UK in the seventies, fleeing ethnic fighting and terrorism.

Bad Boys was nothing less than a complete travesty of the truth. It turned my parents into the villains of the piece.

That's what he said, Mum. He often used to say that he made an enemy every time he did a divorce, because someone had to win and someone had to lose.' He thought for a moment. 'Did you tell them he was being followed?

After he died, I felt a terrible emptiness and it was only natural that I should have directed my feelings at Richard. It didn't matter how kind he was to me. I thought he was buying his way out of jail, if you know what I mean. The more he gave me, the angrier I got.

And why would three old university friends who only saw each other occasionally for adventure holidays have suddenly come to blows?

There was a simmering hostility between them even now. Hawthorne was homophobic. It was his least endearing trait. I'm sure Spencer had picked up on it.