Sword Quotes

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

Patrick Rothfuss

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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

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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.

Hans Rosling

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The joke is mightier than the sword.

Bassem Youssef

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I'm useless with a sword in real life.

John Bradley-West

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The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

John Lothrop Motley

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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Ang Lee

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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

Robert E. Lee

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First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

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Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

Lucy Liu

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There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

Diego Klattenhoff

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Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Ashton Kutcher

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Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Thomas Bulfinch

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Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

Rhys Darby

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It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Lynn Abbey

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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

Kevin Bacon

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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

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The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Everett Dirksen

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You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story 3,' which isn't realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.

David S. Goyer

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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton

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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

Vince McMahon

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I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

Neil Diamond

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Aeschylus

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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

Victoria Aveyard

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