Knights Quotes - Page 9

• This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.

  Tessa Dare

  Lakes, Bars, Legends

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• What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.209, Bantam

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• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Strong, Hurt, Long

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

  Jim Butcher

  Winter, Harry Dresden, Primitive

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• And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Dark, Journey

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• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Climbing, Hands, Track

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.235

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• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Marine, Endurance

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• Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.

  Drake

  Hater, Lying, Humble

  Song: Cameras, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Son, Names

  "Bob Knight could be fired after latest allegations". www.cnn.com. September 9, 2000.

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• On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

  Steven Pressfield

  Positivity, Dragons, Self

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• A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

  Robert Burns

  Faith, Honesty, Men

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.542

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• Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Warrior

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• "My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Brother, Important, Half

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• I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

  Bobby Fischer

  Women, Moving, Giving

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• In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

  Vlastimil Hort

  Stronger, Bishops, Chess

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• They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Player, Men

  "Portrait of a genius as a young chess master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human embodiment of national unity and world peace, everyone would have fallen down laughing.

  Froma Harrop

  Play, White, Laughing

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  Jennifer Garner

  Princess, Hard Work, White

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• And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Shining, Needs, Sometimes

  "Kirsten Dunst is Bazaar's May cover star". Interview with Ajesh Patalay, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 2, 2014.

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• I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "Feminist Dogma Bites Kirsten Dunst" by David Limbaugh, www.newsmax.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Horse, Thinking, Riding

  "The wit and wisdom of Madonna" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. August 15, 2008.

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• It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Writing

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• When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you become a man of your word. You become a man of conviction that you're not willing to sell out and you're really a true knight in shining armour.

  Jim Caviezel

  Men, Shining, Trying

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• I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Use, Lasts, Force

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• I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.

  Alex Newell

  Bff, Together, Glee

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