Covenant Of War Quotes & Sayings

The Ark was a humble piece of religious furniture which originally contained the covenant itself. It was dear to the Israelites, reminding them of their lowly origins, and standing for the pristine orthodoxy and purity of their theocratic creed. The Bible account gives later justifications for David's failure to build a temple for it: God would not allow him, as he was above all a warrior, a 'man of blood'; it was also said that he was too busy making war.172 — Paul Johnson

Back during the war, the sides were a lot clearer. Now that we're fighting other humans again as well, things get muddy real fast. Many soldiers who were fantastic against the Covenant have now balked at battling the Front or any of the other dozens of homegrown terrorist groups across our worlds. — Matt Forbeck

No. Until man can order his own affairs, until he ceases to prey on his brothers, he will need someone to maintain order. A lawman is not a restraint, but a freedom, a liberation. He restrains only those who would break the laws and provides freedom for the rest of us to work, to laugh, to sing, to play in peace. — Louis L'Amour

Every great person educates themselves. — Nas

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost. — Willis Regier

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love. — Joy Harjo

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. — Sun Tzu

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly. — Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen. — Hal Moore

What an air of probability sometimes runs through a dream! And at others, what a heap of absurdities it is! — Jane Austen

If your courage holds in the small battles, it will hold in the great ones. — Cliff Graham

Film spectators are quiet vampires. — Jim Morrison

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it. — Anu Garg

I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new. — Louise Hay

He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition — P.G. Wodehouse

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort. — Beth Orton

you create your life in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourselves and others. — Noah St. John