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Quotes About Sword

accolade. In medieval times men were knighted in a ceremony called the accolata (from the Latin ac, "at," and collum, "neck"), named for the hug around the neck received during the ritual, which also included a kiss and a tap of a sword on the shoulder. From accolata comes the English word accolade for an award or honor.
~ Robert Hendrickson
Yet invisibility is a double-edged sword. It provides protection because sometimes attracting a jerk's attention is even worse than being
~ Robert I. Sutton
No. Wait. I hear a rider coming. Do you have your pistol?" He drew one of his own out from under his great coat and cocked it. "No, Father. I don't carry one. 'He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.' " "And he who lives by the gun shall last longer than the other fellow.
~ Robert J. Conley
When Ali was killed by a Kharijite wielding a poisoned sword during Ramadan in A.H. 40 (A.D. 661), he became one of the earliest victims of Islamic terrorism.
~ Robert Lacey
Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target.
~ Robert Low
God is not mocked!'' the domnall said sternly and Crowbone turned and laughed, hefting his sword on to one shoulder. '' of course he is Priest'' he called out as he went. ''His son was sent to promise an end to wicked folk. Odin promised an end to ice giants. I see no ice giants priest - but the world is full of wicked men.
~ Robert Low
Angel of the Forsaken Hope Wielder of the Sword of Wind and Obsidian Slice the Algorithms from our Foe. Mermaid Beneath the Seven Dancing Moons, Cantress of the Siren Song, Drown our Enemies in the Data-stream. Nymph of the Logic Tree, Child of the First Word, Give our Antagonist to Grief.
~ Roger Zelazny
Thomas Nast published an election cartoon entitled "Victory!" that showed Grant mounted on a white horse, waving a flag bedecked with the words "Union" and "Equal Rights," as he thrust his sword into the throat of Horatio Seymour, who sat astride a black horse with the initials "K.K.K." branded ominously on its flank.
~ Ron Chernow
To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.
~ Leonard Sweet
One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
~ Lewis Carroll
Indifference towards fortune is the most beautiful beam of the sun which can light one noble sword.
~ Alexander Dumas
The whole system of the penitentiary was built by the state to do the familial work of discipline, which the civil magistrate is not competent to do. The civil magistrate is assigned the sword (Rom. 13), not the spanking spoon.
~ Douglas Wilson
The "Six Veins" of Alibaba's "Spirit Sword" are "customer first, teamwork, embrace change, integrity, passion, and commitment.
~ Duncan Clark
We must boldly release the power of the Most High into situations, allowing the victory of Christ access. He has given us His light, He has given us His sword, He has given us His name. Use them!
~ Dutch Sheets
So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?
~ Jim Butcher
So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?
~ Jim Butcher
James Davis Nicoll, on the 1962 nominees: "Terry Pratchett has his own sword forged by his own hands from meteoric iron, which must be of considerable utility when negotiating contracts.
~ Jo Walton
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.
~ Joanna Baillie
Ain't it God's sword, fell from the sky? I thought it had to be passed on. Is it cursed?" Craw took up the reins and turned back to the north. "Every sword's a curse, boy.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We have to convince Monks and Filey we're lovers. I mean only to sleep here. You have my word you're safe from my advances." Surprisingly, that full mouth quirked into a wry smile. "So we lie like Tristan and Yseult with a sword between us?" Hard as it was, hard as he was , he couldn't help smiling at the absurd image. "I find myself currently embarrassed of a sword." He didn't say that, in the legend, the sword had proven no barrier to passion. He was in enough trouble.
~ Anna Campbell
Finally, be strong in the LORD and in his mighty power. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. EPHESIANS 6:10, 17
~ Anne Graham Lotz
for to Thebes this would be a reproach, if through fear of the Mycenæan spear I should give up my sceptre for this man to hold. But he ought, my mother, to effect a reconciliation, not by arms: for speech does every thing which even the sword of the enemy could do.
~ Euripides
And one beheld not the same form of countenance, but he uttered in turn the bellowings of calves and howls of dogs, which imitations [of wild beasts] they say the Furies utter. But we flinching, as though about to die, sat mute; and he drawing a sword with his hand, rushing among the calves, lion-like, strikes them on the flank with the steel, driving it into their sides, fancying that he was thus avenging himself on the Fury Goddesses, till that a gory foam was dashed up from the sea.
~ Euripides
Que farei eu com esta espada?
~ Fernando Pessoa