Janet Morris Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Heart, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.286, Paradise Publishing

• This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Fighting, Battle

• Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.

  Janet Morris

  Time, War, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.194, Paradise Publishing

• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

  Janet Morris

  Horse, Pain, War

• Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

  Janet Morris

  Ambition, Fighting, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

• Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

  Janet Morris

  Grief, Commitment, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.93, Paradise Publishing

• If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

  Janet Morris

  God, War, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.4, Paradise Publishing

• Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

  Janet Morris

  God, Loyalty, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.151, Paradise Publishing

• Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Fighting, Spirit

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.29, Paradise Publishing

• In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

  Janet Morris

  Brother, Fighting, Forever

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.42, Paradise Publishing

• Live to fight on other days.

  Janet Morris

  Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.151, Paradise Publishing

• Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

  Janet Morris

  Fighting, Honor, Looks

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.447, Paradise Publishing

• And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Horse, Commitment

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

• For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

  Janet Morris

  Fighting, Survival, Chance

• The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Fighting, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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