Fighting Quotes - You can "win" a fight and still lose

 

Fighting Quotes - You can "win" a fight and still lose 

“Even as a child, Adele Mundy had known the fighting would never be over. If there wasn’t a battle raging at this place now, there were battles going on elsewhere and would always be battles until there was no longer a species called Man in the universe.”

― David Drake, Lt. Leary, Commanding

 

“They had never promised each other every lifetime, every universe, every possible arrangement of atoms. Those are in infinite supply, and they are two girls. But they are two girls whose blood runs with the heat of exploding stars, even as it drips down their knuckles. They are two girls whose souls reach for each other and ignore probability and infinity. They are two girls who crash together and touch each other gently.

They have each other’s names carved into their bones and each other’s fingerprints tattooed on their ligaments and they breathe in time with the other’s heartbeat. They would count the steps to hell and freeze it over to save one another and they would burn if there were no other choice.

When the sun goes supernova and solar flares lick across the sky, they will see one another, even if only for an instant, and think, This is almost heaven. And with every instant they have they can read each other like braille with ink-stained fingertips and they are a force of nature if you dare to touch them, learning what happens when a hurricane protects its own.”

― Maia Brown-Jackson, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 141, Nos. 1 & 2, July/August 2021

 

“Deficits are defeated by the strength that we gain in fighting them.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

“You can "win" a fight and still lose, if you injure yourself in the process.”

― Richard Bresler, Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life

 

“One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”

― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

 

“A midwife knows too much . . .  But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.”

― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

 

“The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”

― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

 

“Despite the convent walls, when I was writing, my mind was free.”

― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

 

“Will they stand sir?”

“Stand? I’ll have trouble stopping them charging. These men are the 9th Sudanese battalion, all from the South Sudan and the Nuba Hills. Bloody fine soldiers with just a little discipline imposed by their officers. You’ll see and so will the Dervishes.”

― Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum

 

“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.”

― Shannon L. Alder

 

“I'd fight a gang of wolves if they attacked my ducks. Like Mozart, you can call me Wolfgang.”

― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

 

“Haroun shook his head. “This is not a thing for rifles. If they are seen there will be questions. For tonight we have daggers only.”

― Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum

 

“Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.”

― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

 

“Taryn glowers, putting her chin up. 'I didn't want to fight.'

'Then you ought not to do so in the future,' Madoc says. 'There's no point in fighting if you're not intending to win.”

― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

 

“Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.”

― Holly Black, The Wicked King

 

“The weight of the sea seemed to pass down on him. He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it. There would be no lying on beds of moss, no barbed words easily spoken, no falling down from too much wine, no dancing at all.”

― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

 

“The world is getting more violent, and we need to be prepared. I once trained for a fight by pushing buttons in an elevator. Of course, it was a Saxophone-FREE environment, which favors my physical combat approach.”

― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

 

“I fight battles to help other people fight theirs.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

“The men were clearly feeling very confident. Logically, they did have a reason to be cocky—it was a five against one fight. But the main flaw in their logic was they didn’t know their opponent. Downing the shutters means you can take your time doling out punishment as all escape routes have been closed off. But that works both ways. There are times when the hunters become the prey.”

― Bill Runner, Hard Target

 

“Would you think it wise to step into the ring with someone who has fought for thousands upon thousands of years and never been defeated? Yet, when you decide to challenge the ‘truth,’ that’s exactly who you’re stepping into the ring with.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

“Didn't want to kill him, but in her experience it was far better to hit a man too hard than not hard enough.”

― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds