Faramir famous quotes

We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.
-- Faramir

#Sports #Memories #War

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.
-- Faramir

#War

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
-- Faramir

#Wise #Men #Enough

War will make corpses of us all.
-- Faramir

#War #Lord #Rings

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.