Quotes of: Sword Keyword

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Billy Hughes

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

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

I darted away from Geir and jmped through the gaping hole in the wall Will's body had made. The settling dust choked me, but I made it through and ran to Will. He was struggling to his feet, leaning heavily on his sword as the point dug into the cold...

Angelfire

So he rode to a green hillock and there set his banner, and the White Horse ran rippling in the wind. 'Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising, I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for ...

The Return of the King

As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the fate of humanity. In Eden, Adam sinned; in Gethsemane, Christ ...

Life of Christ

The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and ...

The Sword in the Stone

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his throat. His dripping ears were flat to his skull, fire crackled in his brown eyes, his huge sword blurred in a whirring figure ...

Oath of Swords

..But for long years we healers have only sought to patch the rents made by the men of swords. Though we should still have enough to do without them: the world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.' 'It needs but one f...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Bill: I suppose the traditional way to conclude this is, we cross Hanzo swords. Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very own private beach. And this private beach just so happens to look particularly beautiful bathed in moonlight. ...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

Afterlife

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Ancillary Sword

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

Snow Crash

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

A Storm of Swords

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

A Storm of Swords

Eppure, si nascondeva nella sua mente confusa la convinzione di poter superare tutti quegli ostacoli apparentemente insormontabili.

The Sword/Elfstones of Shannara

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

Theft of Swords

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

Nobuhiro Watsuki

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Richard Cobden