Leonidas Quote by Steven Pressfield

“When a man seats before his eyes the bronze face of his helmet and steps off from the line of departure, he divides himself,…

— Steven Pressfield

“In another place, their sons were killed between the barbs of their own guard wire, killed with misfired bombs while squirming in the mire…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Pop quizzes were killers. Like ambushing assassins they elicited fear and loathing in the prey, and a certain heady power in the hunter.”

— J.D. Robb

“They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong…

— Tahereh Mafi

“The most frightening Enemy, the most neutral Companion and the best Friend: the Present.”

— Sino Melo

“Terror had them all for a moment, and it ravaged them, and when it was finished, shock had its way with them, and left…

— Dean F. Wilson

“Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.”

— Colum McCann

“The most frightening Enemy, the most neutral Companion and the best Friend: Time.”

— Sino Melo

“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day,…

— Herman Melville

“I squinted at the western sky behind Thaddeus, a blood-red smear melting into blackness. Twisting my neck, I glanced in the opposite direction. My…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“He’d discovered that most of the terrors that stalked the night weren’t really terrors at all. They were mostly like regular folks, just trying…

— A. Lee Martinez

“Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, Out in the trench with three hours' watch to take, I blunder through the splashing mirk;…

— Siegfried Sassoon