Fighting
Quotes - Many people do not understand the art of winning
“There
is something to be written about those who are still here in some shape after a
war they fought alone engaged every part of their being.”
―
Darnell Lamont Walker
“Many
people do not understand the art of winning and this has been the case for many
centuries.
There
was once a Shaolin monk who was constantly being challenged to fight. He always
won, even against the angriest and strongest fighters, because they could not
understand that technique is always superior to personal will and expectations.
Some
of the men noticed his skill and asked to be trained with him, and once their
technique was good enough, they would try to defeat him. But the monk would
defeat them instead because they could not understand that experience is always
superior to technique.
As
the monk grew older, he did not desire to fight anymore, and so many men would
insult him. But the monk was still winning, because they could not understand
that they were wasting an opportunity to learn and the monk did not desire to
waste the little time he had left on earth.
Before
he died, the monk wrote a few manuscripts with his wisdom, but few were capable
of understanding his words because their spirit was not ready. They were still
thinking about winning. And so they lost everything, they lost the opportunity
to develop a new technique, gain experience, study and understand how to win.”
―
Dan Desmarques
“War
is a game that, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.”
―
Shakespeare
“How
would he protect her, as weak and wounded as he was? If the two armies were
about to shell the town again, he had to find a safe place for her to be. And
if the Confederates gained Gettysburg itself, they would probably take him as a
prisoner. He needed to make sure that Arabella had a place of safety...”
―
Sarah Brazytis, The Letter
“The
shouts continued to sound at the bus stop across the street. A shirtless man
wearing a backpack was going around and grabbing women, stumbling here and
there, and yelling with hostility. Everyone at the bus stop backed away.
A
group of able-bodied humans paralyzed by violence seemed incomprehensible. But
that was the smoke bomb of monotony entering terrified lungs, lungs alive but
too shocked to act. They were afraid of getting harmed themselves to rescue
those who cried out in front of them. It was amazing that regardless of how
much anger was in someone, the character they might have, and what adventure
films they had seen, their body did not want to move when a monster ate in
front of them.”
―
Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost
“And
once they locked eyes, brown on brown, she saw altruism in his comet, and the
woman understood, immediately, with a human wisdom unpopular to accept, but too
ancient to ever go away, that the fight needed to be fought. She knew that
there were days in the world when one could not come home in one piece. That
fights must be fought when there was nothing left. That blood, like water, has
its own purpose and flow.”
―
Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost
“His
eyes were wet, like a receipt machine that prints paper pain. His wounds soaked
his shirt merlot. His mouth leaked like a broken faucet. The left side of his
face bruised as if someone had laid his head flat and dropped truck tires on
them. His ribs felt like a bad science project made of toothpicks. Andrei
staggered up Hilgard Avenue toward the church and by the time the cops turned
around to seize him, he was gone.
“Where’s
the kid?” said Gonzales.”
―
Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost
“Many
of the advances that we make in the battles that we’re fighting today will be
evidenced in the battles that we won’t have to fight tomorrow.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A
bad fighter loses a fight even against the boxing bag.”
―
Tamerlan Kuzgov
“When
the purpose of the battle exceeds any benefit that we might derive from fighting
it, it is then that we have become warriors of the most warring kind.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Sometimes
the evidence of everything that I wish were not evidence points me to all of
the things that I’ve spent my life attempting to build evidence against.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Nesta
fought every step of the way.
She
did not make it easy for them. She clawed and kicked and bucked.
And
it was not enough.
And
we were not enough to save her.
I
watched as she was hoisted up. Elain remained shuddering on the ground.
Lucien's coat draped around her. She did not look at the Cauldron.
Cassian
stirred again, his shredded wings twitching and spraying blood, his muscles
quivering. At Nesta's shouts, her raging, his eyes fluttered open, glazed and
unseeing, an answer to some call in his blood, a promise he'd made her. But
pain knocked him under again.
Nesta
was shoved into the water up to her shoulders. She bucked even as the water
sprayed. She clawed and screamed her rage, her defiance.
'Put
her under,' the king hissed.
The
guards straining, shoved her slender shoulders. Her brown-gold head.
And
as they pushed her head down, she thrashed one last time, freeing her long,
pale arm
Teeth
bared, Nesta pointed one finger at the King of Hybern.
One
finger, a curse and a damning.
A
promise.
And
as Nesta's head was forced under the water, as that hand was violently shoved
down, the King of Hybern had the good sense to look somewhat unnerved.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
“Boy,
I’ve been in more parlor fights than years you’ve been alive.”
―
Aegelis, X Captain Ruik's Adventure
