Garth Nix Quotes

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.

I believe, just in the ring, I'm explosive.

I'm a tough guy. I'm ready to battle with anybody.

Having a weapon like that means you're pretty much in control of events. Nobody's going to argue with a flaming sword.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

I do believe when I put those little gloves on I can hurt anyone.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Might was the measure of right.

The way to have power is to take it.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.