Crossing Swords Quotes & Sayings

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. — Jerzy Kosinski

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker". — John Hodgman

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting! — Lee Remick

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others. — Ruby Wax

...I had this sudden feeling, like my life could have easily taken another path. — Walter Sorrells

On Sunday, evening, May 2, 2015, in Garland, Texas, an active-shooter incident didn't end in a massacre. It ended when an armed police officer took the fight to the enemy, literally pushing toward them and killing the duo before they could massacre innocents in a crowded event center. Forget politics. Forget before and after. When the attack is initiated there is no negotiation, no thinking - only fighting, pushing, and close killing. The event in Garland wasn't quite the soft target the terrorists thought it would be. They didn't have the access to the defenseless civilians they thought they'd have. Defend yourself - now rather than later. Strength stops strength. Overwhelming strength stops massacres in their tracks. — Gary J. Byrne

So that was the story of who she was. The one who'd been too sensitive. Too weak. — James S.A. Corey

Believe me, when a woman loves a man, you do not win her heart by crossing swords with him. — Alexandre Dumas

God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by the bestowment of a good infinitely valuable, because eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually bestowed. — John Piper

And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule. — John Milton