Sabers Quotes & Sayings

A man who has signed away his soul and his fate to solitude is incapable of faith. He can only wait. For the day or the hour when he can talk about everything that forced him into solitude with the man or men who forced him into that condition. He prepares himself for that monument for ten or forty or forty-one years the way one prepares for a duel. He brings his affairs into order in case he dies in the duel. And he practices every day, as professional duelists do. And what weapon does he practice with? With his memories, so that he will not allow solitude and time to cloudd his sight and weaken his heart and his soul. There is one duel in life, fought without sabers, that nonetheless is worth preparing for with all one's strength. And it is the most dangerous. And one day the moment comes. — Sandor Marai

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic. — Sufe Bradshaw

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work. — Barack Obama

Surrounded by enemies, there were officially no enemies for them. With civilization at large trickling down shitholes like Mogadishu and Kigali and Port-au-Prince, the "new" Army was under strict orders: Thou shalt have no enemy. No casualties. No turf. You occupied high ground only long enough to let the politicos rattle sabers and get reelected, and then you moved on to the next bad place. The landscape changed; the hatreds did not. — Jeff Long

The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die. — Steven Pressfield

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it. — Samuel Witwer

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis

I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again! — Ewan McGregor

The worst thing you can be is a liar ... Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two. — Justin Halpern

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God? — Richard Stearns

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple. — Demi Moore

I need to sing and I love to travel. — Britney Spears

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. — Lane Kirkland

It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people. — Mira Grant

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is. — Kurt Russell

Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't — James Gould Cozzens

There was magic, and there was magic. Thanks to Gutenberg, I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin. — Jim C. Hines

The more you embrace change, though, the easier it gets. — Penelope Douglas