Quotes with sword

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  • Calista Flockhart Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    Timon of Athens IV
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Richard Whately Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
    Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Alexander Hamilton When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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