Fighting is better than this waiting,” Brienne said. “You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When you’re armored it’s hard for anyone to hurt you.”
“Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her.
Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.
Tag: battle ladies knights brienne childbed
They fought because they loved the dance, and the weight of a sword in their hands. The clash and spark of metal and hiss of flame was like music written just for them. They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior's stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
The Warrior Heir Cinda Williams Chima pg. 426Tag: glory battle stone author blood heir warrior swords trilogy
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
A.J. HartleyTag: evil war good battle warriors
The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even you body. "You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight , the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing." Battle fever. I am half a man and drunk with slaughter, let them kill me if they can!
George R.R. MartinTag: war battle tyrion-lannister
But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life.
She'd betrayed him.
He smiled faintly.
Tag: love betrayal battle highlander karen-marie-moning jessica lucan cian jessi spell-of-the-highlander
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
Criss JamiTag: reason purpose war enemies strategy understanding argument fallacy battle debate exaggeration motives unbiased fallacies biased straw-man straw-man-fallacy strawman strawman-fallacy tactic
Alamo has been a strong inspiration for nations striving for freedom all around the globe since 1836. Gvozdansko has not earned public reputation, but profoundly touched the heart of the bitter enemy Ferhat-paša alone in 1578. Croats have a duty and obligation to learn about Gvozdansko.
Vinko VrbanicTag: freedom battle alamo ferhat-pasa gvozdansko ottoman vinko-vrbanic
A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.
Leo TolstoyTag: war victory battle defeat defeatism win
We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.
Neal ShustermanLet his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.
George R.R. MartinTag: courage hatred prayer failure battle
« prima precedente
Pagina 8 di 17.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.