Rick Riordan Quotes

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

War is no damn football game.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Peace is produced by war.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

War is the province of danger.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

War is an abstraction.