Quotes with sword-fish

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  • Ang Lee The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Terry Pratchett The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The pen is mightier than the sword.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • William Camden The sea hath fish for every man.
    Source: Remains Concerning Britain
    William Camden
    English antiquarian, historian and topographer (1551 - 1623)
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  • Eric Hoffer The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sholem Asch The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Charles de Gaulle The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Arsene Wenger Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Napoleon There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Alexander Pope There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Buddha There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • C. S. Lewis There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
    Than hew to't with thy sword.
    Source: Timon of Athens IV
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Louise Erdrich Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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