Lance Conrad > Quotes

“Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“Man is slow because he hesitates”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“I do respect clever.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“For the entire history of humanity, we have stared into fires, hypnotized by the twitch and flow of the blues and yellows. We see the stars of alien skies reflected in the coals and divine messages in the dance of the flames. Fire is magic.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“The final desire of any warrior is a good death.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“Never underestimate a farmer.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“Faith is courage.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation

“There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“Stories shape the world.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility

“All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty