Conn Iggulden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.
-- Conn Iggulden

#Thinking #Light #Stronger
Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius
-- Conn Iggulden

#Men #Silent #Despise
He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.
-- Conn Iggulden

#Dog #Hurt #Hate
It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
-- Conn Iggulden

#Thinking #May #Matter
In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.
-- Conn Iggulden

#Phones #Cells #Games
We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.
-- Conn Iggulden

#Sea #Names #People
The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
-- Conn Iggulden

#Air #Eagles #Land

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Conn Iggulden famous quotes

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