#sword

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

The pen is mightier than the sword. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#pen #sword #than

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#done #gave #guess #had #i

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doing #egotism #new #new york #new york times

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#film #i #insist #keep #me

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#before #done #film #full #given

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#body #born #genre #head #her

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 Bonaparte

#conquered #forces #long #long run #only

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#each #face #hero #his #light

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ↗

— Gordon W. Allport

#hopeless #laughter #life #many #other