"It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats……" — Mark Lawrence
"It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war."
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65 Quotes by Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence has 65 quotes on this site.
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You're a Good Little Slave
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There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll…
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Hate will keep you alive where love fails
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We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes,…
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There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they…
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Few things worth having can be got easily.
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I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on…
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Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming…
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As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that…
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Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories…
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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
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More Battle Quotes
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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