D. J. MacHale Quotes

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

I can't spare this man—he fights.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.

If I'm going to get tired, I'd rather it be from fighting and not from wrestling.

Superman has always been a battle for hope.

In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

I'm tired of fighting...

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.