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Quotes About Sword

The healing bite on his jaw darkened very slightly; he leapt in the air, sword high, but Hild wasn't there when he landed.
~ Nicola Griffith
He rested his palm on the pommel of his sword in what Peretur recognized not as a threat but the habit of a possessive man reassuing himself of his treasure. Mine. This is mine and you may not have it.
~ Nicola Griffith
The sword called to her, and somehow Arturus felt it.
~ Nicola Griffith
Taras Bulba: I brought you into this world and I can take you out. Taras: My son, why? Why? Andrei Bulba: I did what I had to do. Taras: From the day I plunged you in the river to give you life, I loved you as I loved the steppes. You were my pride! I gave you life. It is on me to take it away from you. Taras: Put your faith in your sword and your sword in the Pole.
~ Nikolai Gogol
But one of the fearful villagers stepped forward and said, "I will pray to the Greek gods." Mattathias turned red with anger over the man's betrayal. He seized a sword and killed the Jewish traitor and one of the king's soldiers.
~ Unknown
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
~ Orlando Bloom
A twelfth-century samurai's main weapon was his bow, but his sword offered a last line of defense if he ran out of arrows or was knocked off his horse. Yet even as a backup weapon the sword carried a symbolic weight that the bow did not. Weapons like bows and spears were also used for hunting. The sword had a singular purpose: to end human life" (Turner & Hinds, 2016, p. 23).
~ Unknown
Between the illness and the cure there is a strange realm Peopled by ignorant subjects who want and do not want The sword of sanity and the elm Stake that scotches the vampire. - Life Story
~ Unknown
This world has need of song and sword.
~ Patricia Briggs
Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
But how did—" Shiara stopped because Telemain was stirring. A moment later he opened his eyes and looked up at all of us. "What was that?" he asked rather hazily. "That," said Morwen, "was a sword. They are long, pointed, and very sharp. You're lucky it didn't take your head off.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
A plain sword. No wonder I couldn't block it. I thought it was a spell.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Todos mis pupilos deben ser capaces de defender sus ideas. Hagas lo que hagas en la vida, tu ingenio te defenderá más a menudo que una espada. ¡Cultívalo!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Hagas lo que hagas en la vida, tu ingenio te defenderá más a menudo que una espada. ¡Cultívalo!.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It looked as if an alchemist had distilled a dozen swords, and when the crucible had cooled this was lying in the bottom: a sword in its pure form.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Respetas algo cuando le das un buen uso –replicó ella–. Tal vez pasen años hasta que vuelva a las tierras de los bárbaros y pelee. ¿Qué mal hay en que, entretanto, corte ramitas y zanahorias con mi espada? –Se puso seria–. Llevar una espada toda la vida, sabiendo que solo sirve para matar... –Meneó la cabeza–. ¿Cómo afectaría eso a mi mente? Sería espantoso.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I
~ Patrick Rothfuss
your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The words struck a chord in me. They were the same words that Ben had used a hundred times as he drilled me endlessly in argument. His words came back, admonishing me: What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The leprous corpse, touch'd by this spirit tender, Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath; Like incarnations of the stars, when splendour Is chang'd to fragrance, they illumine death And mock the merry worm that wakes beneath; Nought we know, dies. Shall that alone which knows Be as a sword consum'd before the sheath By sightless lightning?—the intense atom glows A moment, then is quench'd in a most cold repose.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The length and power of the sword is dependent upon the amount of Word you have hidden in your spirit.
~ Unknown
Far may it be from my lord, that while a tyrant is restrained by fear after cutting down only two or three men, the sword of him who is the master of all Christian mercy should run riot for the slaughter of so many souls.
~ Peter Damian