Sword Quotes
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson -
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
Larry Kramer
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
Maisie Williams -
The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
Damien Chazelle -
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.
Rachel Nichols -
I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
Daniel Baldwin -
Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.
Eminem -
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
Lester Cole -
The result, the Walker Colt, was one of the most effective and deadly pieces of technology ever devised, one that would soon kill more men in combat than any sidearm since the Roman short sword.
S. C. Gwynne -
Watch my sword, not my face!'he said. 'I'm going to stab you, not bite you!”
Allan Frewin Jones
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It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down.
Yagyu Munenori -
There may be a hundred stances and sword positions, but you win with just one.
Yagyu Munenori -
You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath.
Confucius -
If you have attained mastery of swordlessness, you will never lack for a sword.
Yagyu Munenori -
A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversary's inititive having missed its mark, you turn the tables arround and get the jump on your adversary.
Yagyu Munenori -
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
And sometimes the princess needs to get off her ass, pick up a sword, and slay the dragon herself.
Amerie -
Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Even if I was pretty, it wasn’t going to be enough to bring me the life I wanted: one where I was free to make choices that mattered, one where people listened to what I had to say. Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus. I’d never get my hands on a thunderbolt, so if I wanted to be free, I’d better find a way to get my hands on the next best thing: a sword.
Esther M. Friesner