“I would die for my country. But I’d rather kill for it. Ready your troops. We march!”
“I’ve met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world.”
“And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro.”
“Not knowing one’s weaknesses gets people killed.”
“After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.”
“There are always two sides to everything he says and does, just as there are two sides to Brude himself.”
“the ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being.”
“Always ask why. It’s not enough to know the what of something.”
“Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?”
“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.”
“When seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune lectured a Montagnais Indian man about the dangers of the rampant infidelity he’d witnessed, Le Jeune received a lesson on proper parenthood in response. The missionary recalled, “I told him that it was not honorable for a woman to love any one else except her husband, and that this evil being among them, he himself was not sure that his son, who was there present, was his son. He replied, ‘Thou hast no sense. You French people love only your own children; but we all love all the children of our tribe.’”5”
“Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.”
“Football means soccer, squash is soda, bonkers is nuts—I’m going to need an interpreter or something.”
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