David Gemmell Short Quotes

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In my experience all women deserve someone better.

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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

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Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

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All things are possible,... Except the passing of regret.

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A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

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"How do you do it? How do you stay so strong?" "I fake it."

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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

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I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

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Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

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"I underestimated you, woman."... "The cry of men down the ages."

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Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

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Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

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What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

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Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.

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Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

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We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

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By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.

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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness...

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... love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.

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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

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We like to think of life as a constant... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

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Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

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A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

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I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

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... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

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I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

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