#sword

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

#burning #came #cutting #down #dynasty

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#cut #dreams #either #swords #words

Give me a sword fight any day. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#day #fight #give #give me #me

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#axis #power #sword #world

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #called #destiny #elastic #green

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

#existence #factor #feminine #know #meaning

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#entire #hidden #marriage #reconciles #sexes

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#been #hand #i #others #pen

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#body #different #fighting #much #position

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#born #england #king #out #stone