Swordsmiths Quotes & Sayings

The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on. — George Orwell

So is that what's important to you? To be able to freeze in the middle of a scene and to have somebody give you your line? Wouldn't it be much better to go through Africa and show them how to dig wells and how to make vegetables grow and inspire them to plant? — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment. — Theodor Adorno

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator. — Samuel Wilberforce

Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung

The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it. — Mark Forsyth

The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one particular path, and lands in one particular location, is to understand the will of Amaat. There is no such thing as "just a coincidence." Nothing happens by chance, but only according to the mind of God. — Ann Leckie

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times. — Sienna Miller

Wishes don't bring riches; work make things work. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life. — Charles Templeton

Throughout history people have gazed at the skies in wonder. You only have to stand at the base of a church steeple to understand why. — Fennel Hudson

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill

The world we imagine seems as real as the ones we've experienced. We suffuse the model with the emotional values of past realities. And in the thrall of that vision (call it "the plan," writ large), we go forth and take action. If things don't go according to the plan, revising such a robust model may be difficult. In an environment that has high objective hazards, the longer it takes to dislodge the imagined world in favor of the real one, the greater the risk. In nature, adaptation is important; the plan is not. It's a Zen thing. We must plan. But we must be able to let go of the plan, too. — Laurence Gonzales