Quotes About Fencing

It is of course also possible that the attacker is deliberately feinting to draw the parry to bind it, and will strike on the same side if he manages to open the line, or on the other side if not. Feints

when entering into measure to strike, there should be a clear threat made.

No one ever throws a perfect blow in the exact line it is supposed to be in—but by having a set of lines with which to classify blows, we can improve our own efforts, and respond more effectively to our opponent's. Fencing principles help us draw general conclusions from a basically chaotic situation.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." "Has it got any sports in it?" "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders … Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles." "Sounds okay," I said, and I kind of closed my eyes. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

fencing, a sport in which people swordfight for fun rather than for honor or in order to rescue a writer who has been taped to the wall.

I think we need the make sure our border is secure, not just from a standpoint of strategic fencing or border slats, whatever you want to call it, but we need to make sure that once and for all, we secure our border to make sure our communities are safe.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." "You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

I knew it wasn't going to be easy to fence a stolen grand piano in outlaw biker circles.

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

Bill ran the box office for the 1983 Romeo and Juliet, played the piano, endured elocution lessons, fenced and played cards: bridge at Xavier but later five hundred. Shorten's love of cards – of bluff and bidding – is a key to the boy and the man. Only in his final year did he outshine his brother as a debater; he was chosen for the state team in the national championships of 1984.

Eve took me to teach me how to fence, Claire said. Not so much how to fence as how to hold a sword and not drop it, Eve said. And then I fought Oliver to a draw. Shane fluttered his hands. Oh, and then we were all elected as ice princesses and asked to go to Disneyland! Laugh all you want. I'm going to look way better in full skirts than you, Eve said.

Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord's table, no demand for purity of life?

How to carry it, simple thrust and parry. Try and avoid stabbing yourself with it," he added.

She deflected direct questions with the skill of a fencing champ, with little parries that left us still engaged but pointed a few degrees off center.

The two men who were fencing were De Vigne and a smaller, slighter fellow; the one calm, cool, steady, and never at a disadvantage, the other, skilful indeed, but too hot, eager, and rapid: for in fencing, whether with the foils or the tongue, the grand secret is to be cool, since, in proportion to your tranquillity, grows your opponent's exasperation!

Your move should be determined by your strengths, not your opponent's expectations.' Darcy's smile deepened as he warmed to her allusion to fencing. 'Always move to your advantage.