Kami Garcia Quotes

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

Victory is the main object in war.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Success is difficult to define.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

One makes mistakes in every war.

Be very careful of military action. You will be judged by how it ends—not by how it begins.

Success will be accepted in due course. Whereas should we fail, this will be regarded as the mad venture of a fool.

I’ll do my best but I can’t promise anything. t

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.