💬 Quotes

"They had stolen my time and my body and they had used them for their own ends and then they had tossed me away like a piece of refuse."

"If they think it is so great, why don't they go and do the dying themselves? Why don't they go and rot in the mud and the filth and the blood?"

"I am the future. I am the past. I am the present. I am the man who has nothing left but his own mind."

"We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond hunger, beyond desire, beyond self-interest."

"The border between life and death is often no more than a surgeon’s incision."

"Whatever you do, you have to be able to live with yourself afterward."

"Perhaps the reason we exist is to be witnesses to the lives of others, to bear the burden of their stories when they no longer can."

"There are some people who can't be fixed, Marion. Not because the technology isn't there, but because the soul has its own timing."

"I am not my brother's keeper, but I am my brother's brother. That is a bond that survives everything."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive."

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

"Treat your soldiers as you would your own beloved children, and they will follow you into the deepest valley."

"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious."

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."

"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

"I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too."

"I made it on the bevel."

"It’s not that I don’t begrudge him the money, but it is that he is making me pay for the privilege of killing her."