Rick Riordan Quotes

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

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

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

War is the science of destruction.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

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

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.