Fighting
Quotes - I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home
“I
needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and
fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through
the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
―
Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
“You
don't cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight
back. And pretty soon nobody's going to shove you anymore because they'll see
it's not worth it.”
―
Morgan Rhodes, Gathering Darkness
“I
also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the
French colonists! I therefore support your plan to act first and stage a
preemptive strike against the French by launching “Operation Bright Moon”,
which is now the code name for the Japanese coup d ětat which will disarm the
Vichy French Forces by or during the 9th of March 1945!”
(A
Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“But
eventually, you'll have to ask yourself precisely what you're fighting for. And
you'll have to find a reason to live past vengeance.”
―
R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
“Bodies’,
she said. ‘Lots of them’. She glanced over her shoulder to where Sally was
hidden, then back to Nathan, and whispered. ‘Small ones’.”
―
Barry Kirwan, When the children come
“US
General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When
the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing
that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps
totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical
schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”
(A
Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“On
the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an
ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam
rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
―
Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
“He
began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand
upon a different mental basis to yourself.”
―
H.G. Wells
“People
of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and
other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could.
Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the
French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their
discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline
as practised by the Foreign Legion!”
(A
Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“And
Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he
had ever encountered the thing that was then Voldemort, and how he had faced
him, and how he and Dumbledore had discussed fighting a losing battle not long
thereafter. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and
keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite
eradicated. . . .
And
Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared
about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his
godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that
was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he
must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that
the
shelter
of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from
his nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that
it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had
died, and he was more alone than he had ever been before.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Let
go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your
heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”
―
Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of
Spiritual Life
“The
Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked
ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What
gives with these Kampuchean People?”
(A
Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“After
March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of
Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
“We
of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order
to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese
and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the
entire region!”
(A
Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“King
Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial
Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial
freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the
Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
(A
Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“There
is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts
it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a
wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can
be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you
might have a sort of duty to stop them. ”
―
T.H. White, The Once and Future King
