Sword Quotes

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Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Suzanne Collins

He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled.

Suzanne Collins

Men in general are too inclined to let themselves be overawed by what is quantitatively great. It is thus that even thoughtful minds let themselves be impressed by the strength of Napoleon I, to much so that seeing in his person something majestic, when indeed he only have had selfish plans. Half the earth is put to fire and sword to obtain to a man the pleasant sensation of his own absolute power.

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

Thanks to the Internet, words can travel at the speed of light, and no amount of censorship can stop the flow of information.... Thanks to Malala's courage, no militant can silence her. Thanks to the Internet, the pen is mightier than the sword.

My sword reappeared in my pocket. yeah, great timing.now i could attack the walls all i wanted.my cell had no bar, no window, not even a door

The sword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree.

I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

Robert E. Howard

Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." Adhémar's fiancée fell, blessedly, silent.

There stretch'd a sleeping army. One by one,
They took their places until thousands met;
No leader's stars flash'd on before, and none
Lean'd on his sword or stagger'd with his gun —
I wonder if their feet have rested yet!

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

The pen, in our age, weighs heavier in the social scale than the sword of a Norman Baron.

George Henry Lewes

Watch my sword, not my face!'he said. 'I'm going to stab you, not bite you!

Allan Frewin Jones

It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

Mrs. Henry Wood... is a little too fond of calling in Providence to cut the knot of intrigue with the sword of coincidence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He never went mad in your sense. My dear fellow, you're very much wrong if you think there was anything pathological about him — then. The man was brilliantly sane. His mind was as keen as a keen sword. I couldn't understand him, but I could judge of his sanity right enough.

This result […] will daily stand as a veritable sword of Damocles over every succeeding president and his advisers.

William Rehnquist

The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.

The use of the word "just" by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in "Just pull that sword out of the stone" or "Just split that atom."

That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits is eternal.

Quintus Curtius Rufus