Armada Quotes

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James Vella-Bardon
“Rare is the man who can outrun his own fate”
James Vella-Bardon

“The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own massive Armada, commanded by Sir Francis Drake, to Spain and Portugal. This was annihilated too. So maybe God was neutral. Or Muslim.”
David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Ernest Cline
“Few young men know the Oedipal torment of growing up with an insanely hot, perpetually single mom.”
Ernest Cline, Armada

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Bravery without vision is a loose cannon, and vision without bravery is a search for a cannon. But put both together, and you have an armada.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough