Quotes About Legion

#1. Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Markus Zusak

#2. Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack, ahead of everyone.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. And Larry Burlew was a slug. She'd join the Foreign Legion before she'd marry Larry Burlew.

Janet Evanovich

#4. In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

Wendy Kaminer

#5. Was this how it began? One silly woman with fire in her blood stirring the hearts of a legion of fools?

Hugh Howey

#6. Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant - which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man's clothes stretching ahead of them.

Christina Baker Kline

#8. Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

#9. You promised me a kiss," she whispered.
"A rash comment in the heat of the moment." His face was so close she could feel electricity snapping between them.
"I think I'm still feeling that heat."
She tilted her hips. He groaned. It was enough. His mouth captured hers.

Brynn Kelly

#10. You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Claire Denis

#11. But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

Lewis H. Lapham

#12. received the cross of the Legion of Honour.

Gustave Flaubert

#13. Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Tina Brown

#14. Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything ... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one.

C. JoyBell C.

#15. Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

George Vecsey

#16. Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#17. It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

#18. If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

Richard Armour

#19. What is it?" I ask, terrified I have done something wrong.
"Nothing," Stirling replies, running a finger over his own lips. "I thought it would be different, that's all. Actually, it was like kissing a girl. Isn't that strange?

K.C. Finn

#20. No," Frank said. "I'm only a centurion." Jason cursed in Latin. "He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of high enough rank." Nico swung back his black sword at another gryphon. "Well, then, promote him!

Rick Riordan

#21. I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Hugh Howey

#22. There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. The anvil breaks a legion of hammers - by quietly bearing their blows.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. I suggest you leave now, or you'll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting."
"Tie us down?"
"And gag you," Joseph cheerfully reminded them.

Laura Kreitzer

#26. Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

Bob Lefsetz

#27. He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. Read it to me."
"Seriously?" he said quietly. "You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn't enough?

Brynn Kelly

#29. My legion has won many victories. And since you are my dearest friend, we will fight that much harder." His intense, dark eyes locked with hers. "I swear to you: Ker-Ys will not fall.

Jennifer McKeithen

#30. To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;
And visions rising, legion after legion,
Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

Emily Bronte

#31. The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

John F. Kennedy

#32. I'm the son of Jupiter!" he shouted, and just for effect, he summoned the winds, rising a few feet off the ground. "I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion.

Rick Riordan

#33. It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

Kem Nunn

#34. The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl-rimmed brown eyes lit with a challenge. "I am the one you know as Hamid Nabil Hassan. The most wanted man in the world.

Brynn Kelly

#35. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

Diane Ackerman

#36. You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

Azzedine Alaia

#37. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Laura Kreitzer

#38. You know, Goddie's been trying for years to turn me to the gay side," he says in a small, quiet mumble. "I was pretty sure that was never on the cards, until I met you.

K.C. Finn

#39. I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

Tom Hardy

#40. Was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait.

Simon Winchester

#41. Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Hunter S. Thompson

#42. Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#43. Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

Mickey Rooney

#44. What would you suggest?" one of the Italian officials asked.
"We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator," Joseph chimed in

Laura Kreitzer

#45. The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

William Safire

#46. Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than in others.

Dean Koontz

#47. Jason shouted in his best drill-sergeant voice: Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!

Rick Riordan

#48. No more will. No more freedom. Nothing new but agonizing death and never good shall come of it. We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago. We are the last of those your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed. We are the last Precursors. And now we are legion.

Greg Bear

#49. As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

Jonathan Winters

#50. I agree with the British Legion that we have a responsibility to support our troops and support their families, particularly when we are asking people to do very difficult and dangerous things for our security.

Des Browne

#51. For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Florence King

#52. In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

Allen West

#53. She'd felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes.

Rick Riordan

#54. But you still fight. You still hope. Because there's a chance you might win. And even if you don't - you fight for the people you love, especially when they can't fight for themselves - Kennedy

Kami Garcia

#55. In this world, Evil works through countless surrogates. Its name is Legion. But Good works through surrogates, as well, and they are legion, too.

Dean Koontz

#56. I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.

Catherine Leroy

#57. Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

Jules Verne

#58. Aldrik - the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer - was only a man. And men could be broken.

Elise Kova

#59. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

Shane Koyczan

#60. Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

Steven Weber

#61. I'm quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.

Brynn Kelly

#62. God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Henry David Thoreau

#63. He's enough of a man to make a legion of panties disintegrate. Incinerate.

Marata Eros

#64. That's why he's called Legion - in a way he's the embodiment of the crowd. It's the crowd that comes out of him and goes and throws itself off of the cliff. We're witnessing the birth of an individual capable of escaping the fatal destiny of collective violence.

Rene Girard

#65. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.

Brynn Kelly

#66. The legion was raised by Mark Antony. He filled the ranks with men from Cleopatra's army. When Antony was defeated by Octavian, the Twenty-Second was integrated into the rest of the army and has been stationed on the Nile since then. They're a mix of Greeks and Egyptians from the Nile cities.

Simon Scarrow

#67. Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn't pull away.

Gena Showalter

#68. Nothing and no one had ever belonged to him and only him - except Legion. Not that she would do anything necessary to save him, nor would he do anything necessary to save her. But. Yeah, there was always a but with him. He had been her first lover - and he wanted to be her last.

Gena Showalter

#69. The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

John Lennon

#70. My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

Anne Lamott

#71. Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

Wade Clark Mackey

#72. To write well is to have felt a tingle of joy in your being; to have left a little of your blood on the page' B.J.Kibble, author of DRY RAIN, LEGION, CHASING THE WIND,and CRIES FROM THE GRAVE.

B.J. Kibble

#73. Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

#74. The kiss has started something bigger between us, and the lies I'm telling Stirling will only get worse from here on in.

K.C. Finn

#75. It's not if you castrate an entire Roman legion, it's if they believe you did. Perception is everything.

Kresley Cole

#76. That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

Edgar Allan Poe

#77. Watch for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.

Maggie Stiefvater

#78. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.

Arthur W. Pink

#79. Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police - whichever work the shorter hours.

Anthony Powell

#80. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Caroline Norton

#81. There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Brynn Kelly

#82. By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.

Ian McEwan

#83. Everyone else sees a legion of undead clowns worshipping a giant chicken, right?" Moon asks. "Yes." "Yeah." Hara nods. Moon is visibly relieved. "Okay, good.

Matt Wallace

#84. A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

Tahir Shah

#85. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Dennis Prager

#86. He ran a finger along her moist slit. "When I come home to you after a week of dealing with fucking Legion," he said, his voice raspy and low, slowing his finger to circle her clit. "You should not be wearing any clothes. At all.

Zoey Ellis

#87. We need the Fallen Legion," I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her.
"And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in," Firen said dryly.
"That'll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand," I grumbled.

Laura Kreitzer

#88. What Mr. Friedman is suggesting is that if we don't drain the swamp where the rats are breeding, it won't really matter how many of these rats we kill; they will continue to leave the swamp and migrate to our cities in numbers that are legion.

Dick Couch

#89. Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes's skin. "Me no boy. You think me a boy?"
Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron.
Reyes was the first to find his voice. "You're a ... girl?"
A nod. "Me pretty."
"Yes, you are." Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. "Beautiful.

Gena Showalter

#90. The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Dave Winfield

#91. My enemies are legion.

George R R Martin

#92. I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Gil Kane

#93. The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

Jonathan Hickman

#94. Plenty of 'sane' people can't manage to keep it all under control. Their mental state - stress, anxiety, frustration - gets in the way of their ability to be happy.

Sanderson, Brandon (2012-09-11). Legion (Kindle Locations 549-551). Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC. Kindle Edition.

Brandon Sanderson

#95. Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Augustus

#96. We want to fight."
"And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely.

Laura Kreitzer

#97. However, if we strike quickly - while Iadon is still ignorant of our intentions - we could get my legion into the palace and take the king hostage.

Brandon Sanderson

#98. After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#99. Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

Shannon Hale

#100. CONTROL OF FECUNDITY IS SOMETHING EVERY WOMAN WANTS, AND EACH BELIEVES IS HER BIRTHRIGHT. THE WORLDS HAVE OTHER IDEAS, AND IT EVENTUALLY LED TO THEIR DESTRUCTION." - LORD MOKSHI, ANNALS OF THE LEGION

Kameron Hurley