Legion Quotes - Page 6

• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  Tahir Shah

  Pain, Secret, Passionate

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Devil, Watches

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

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• What are you? The voice came from nowhere. It was in the room. It was outside. It was in Magnus's head. "A warlock," Magnus answered. "And what are you?" We are many. "Please do not say you are a legion. Someone's taken that." Do you make mirth from mundane scriptures, warlock? "Just breaking the ice

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Ice, Rooms

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• Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!

  Rick Riordan

  Order, Giving, Grace

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• I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian] "I will find them," Reyna said.

  Rick Riordan

  Journey, Rome, Law

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• No," Frank said. "I'm only a centurion." Jason cursed in Latin. "He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of high enough rank." Nico swung back his black sword at another gryphon. "Well, then, promote him!

  Rick Riordan

  Latin, Mean, Black

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• Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts.

  Jonathan Schell

  Strength, Encouragement, Knowing

  Jonathan Schell (2005). “The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People”

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• I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.

  George S. Patton

  Army, White, Age

  Letter to his mother from Chamlieu, France, November 20, 1917.

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• The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

  Jan Karon

  Might, Fields, Vacuums

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• Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

  Bill Toomey

  Motivational, Athlete, People

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively in the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of the Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq.

  Haj Amin al-Husseini

  War, Struggle, Heart

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mistake, Mean, Talent

  "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us". Book by Diane Ackerman, September 14, 2015.

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• But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .

  Umberto Eco

  Christian, Laughter, Believe

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

  Goldwin Smith

  Discipline, House, Soldier

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

  Wade Clark Mackey

  Awards, Years, Play

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• The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Ocean, Mountain

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• Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

  Steve Jobs

  Airplane, Order, People

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• There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  War, Names, Heartache

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• Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Goal, Long

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Ignorance, Mean

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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• His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ignorance, Hands, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.333

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• The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion and their eloquence for their own sufferings, when the provinces were invaded and desolated by the arms of the successful Barbarians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Successful, Compassion, History

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.496, Modern Library

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• Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Men

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