Gladiator (Sentence Starters)
“People should know when they’re conquered.”
“He sleeps so well because he is loved.”
“When was the last time you were home?”
“Ultimately we are all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we cand ecide how we met that end in order that we are remembered as men.”
“The frost. Sometimes it makes the blade stick.”
“There was once a dream that was ____. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.”
“It vexes me. I am extremely vexed.”
“Are you in danger of becoming a good man, ____?”
“He knows too well how to manipulate the mob.”
“Promise me that you will look after my family.”
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
“How will the world speak my name in years to come?”
“Is ____ worth one good man’s life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again.”
“The silence before you strike, and the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up like a storm.”
“I will see you again, but not yet. Not yet.”
“And you… stay alive, or I’ll be dead.”
“Imagine where you will be in three weeks, and it will be so.”
“Ride until dawn… and then execute him.”
“At my signal, unleash hell!”
“We are nothing but shadows and dust.”
“Take my hand, I only offer it once.”
“Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
“Death smiles on us all. All a man can do is smile back.”
“Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.”
“Is this not why you are here?”
“I’ve seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark.”
“We mortals are but shadows and dust.”
“Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.”
“Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar.”
“Those who are about to die, salute you!”
“Won’t you accept this great honor that I have offered you?”
“Hold the line! Stay with me!”
“I knew a man once who said: death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”
“Do you think I am afraid?”
“What am I going to do with you? You simply… won’t die.”
“Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”
“I don’t pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.”
“You don’t find it hard to do your duty?”
“You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you.”
“Do you think me heartless?”
“You can help me. Whatever comes out of these gates, we’ve got a better chance of survival if we work together.”
“You have nothing to pay for.”
“I have felt alone all my life, except with you.”
“Can any of them fight? I’ve got a match coming up.”
“Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle?”
“Listen to me. Learn from me.”
“Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.”
“You’re lying. I could always tell when you were lying because you were never good at it.”
“____, that is why it must be you.”
“Do you understand? If we stay together, we survive.”
“Fear and wonder, a powerful combination.”
“Do you remember what it was to have trust, ____?”
“Forget you ever knew me, and never come back here again.”
“I think you’ve been afraid all your life.”
“Are we so different, you and I? You take life when you have to, as do I.”
“I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?”
“I think you have a talent for survival.”
“Some of you are thinking that you won’t fight. Others, that you can’t fight. They all say that, until they’re out there.”
“All I’ve ever wanted was to live up to you.”
“I know that you are a man of your word, ____.”
“He’ll bring them death, and they will love him for it.”
“Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.”
“Congratulations, you have very persuasive friends.”
“I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.”
“____ hates all of the world and you most of all.”
“I have much to pay for.”
“Who will help me carry him?”
“Tell me what you’ve been doing busy little bee, or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood.”
“They love ____ for his mercy. So I can’t just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful.”
“____, please be careful. That wasn’t prudent.”
“I have only one more life to take, then it is done.”
“How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant?”
“He killed the man who set you free.”
“I am tired of being strong.”
“When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.”
“Are you not entertained?”
“The whole thing’s like some crazed nightmare.”
“Please be quiet. Your constant scheming gives me even more of a headache.”
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