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" A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. "

" A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it. "

" A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword. "

" 'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me. "

" 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

" As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back. "

" A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust. "

" A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away. "

" A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. "

" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "

" Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. "

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. "

Charles Simmons

" Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. "

" Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! "

George Rogers Clark

" Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword - it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes. "

Emily V. Gordon

" Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. "

Julia Ward Howe

" Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. "

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

" Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people. "

" Fame is very much a double-edged sword. "

" Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.' "

" For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword. "

" Give me a sword fight any day. "

" Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies. "

" 'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story. "

Victoria Aveyard

" He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. "

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

" I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers. "

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