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35 quotes
British fantasy writer and film editor
“You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.”
"I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting."
on Life
"You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last."
on Gratitude
"Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder."
on Fear
"Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back."
"Those with the least always lose the most in war."
on War
"Every war carries within it the seeds of the next."
"Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit."
on Philosophy
"The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick."
on Truth
"Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage."
on Faith
"The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense."
on Wisdom
"Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud."
on Time
"It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back."
"When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out."
"To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike."
"Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest."
on Relationships
"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."
"Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter."
"...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field"
on Leadership
"One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things."
on Resilience
"Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them."
