#sword

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. ↗

— James Harrington

#law #men #paper #swords #without

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#armaments #available #axes #battle #condemned

I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#best #chinese #i #japanese #like

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer. ↗

— Brett Hull

#golfer #i #impatient #most #patient

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ↗

— Aeschylus

#anvil #does #fate #firm #forging

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. ↗

— Akhenaton

#friend #indulge #murder #own #passion

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#entirely #great #men #mightier #pen

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

Freed hands both rising for the pommel now, so natural, so smooth, it was like Kiriath machinery, as if he were machinery, a cunningly crafted clockwork Kiriath mannequin, built to complement the steel. He felt the accustomed kiss of the grip on his palms, felt the grin on his face turn into a snarl. Cold chime as the scabbard gave up its embrace. And the Ravensfriend came out. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#nature

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#after #book #even #i #next