Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and land,Their secret...

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

You will stay and help defend our cave against all comers, protect those weaker than yourself and honor our code. Always use the sword to stand for good and right, never do a thing you...

Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating

There was something behind the softness that intertwined our fingers together—love? It felt different from two days ago. All I could think about was his smooth hand, wrapped in mine. It was more than affection—but...

Poetry can be more eloquent than the most eloquent sermons, and it becomes a weapon more formidable than the sharpest of swords; whenever such a poem–which finds its correct tune and conveys the excitement of...

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike;...

Landon paced back and forth, his eyes a little wild. ‘’Well, he took it worse than I did,’’ Curran said. ‘’I don’t see what the big deal is.‘’‘’It’s a sword made out of your grandmothers...

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...

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

When he said to give him the sword, I don’t think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.

See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered...

Don’t be surprised if I try to stab you with a club sandwich sword. I will defend your right to free speech at any cost—including killing you.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent...

Awesome. I’d terrified the Legatus of the Golden Legion just by showing him my sword. If I waved it around, he’d probably explode.

The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.

Some things in life must be cut away, we must CUT the ties that bind us and keep us from growing, yet we at times, tend to cling to what is familiar, even if it...

Why are people always shooting zombies? Why not just chop their heads off? How can zombies get you if you have a good sword?

The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his...

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life…

Information can be such a double-edged sword.

The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend...

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.

This world has need of song and sword.

Imagine a perfect world

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

I would have fought the forest fire, but it was a dragon-breathing forest fire, and I forgot my sword, my pen, and my Geoffrey of Monmouth tunic.

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

There was a sound of steel meeting steel. Devin flung a desperate look over his shoulder, saw Hewet fending off two men behind him, and looked ahead in time to see ten men in light...

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.