Quotes About Swordsmanship

#1. Saturday's goal was swordsmanship decent enough to get her hired on the first caravan out of this magic-drenched insanity.

Alethea Kontis

#2. To his mild surprise, the men were still out in the yard. Someone had even hung up the swordsmanship targets, which would certainly be helpful if the watch-men were faced with an enemy who was armless and tied to a pole.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. My Aincrad style of swordsmanship was brought here from the floating castle. From a game of death, where every battle risked the ultimate price.

Reki Kawahara

#5. I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

Michael Buckley

#6. Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.

Yagyu Munenori

#7. He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my
side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy.

Katherine McIntyre

#8. In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

H.E. Davey

#9. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

Terrance Hayes

#10. Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

Terence McKenna

#11. If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

Errol Morris

#12. This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Eugen Herrigel

#13. You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

Gail Collins

#14. Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women.

Sofia Samatar

#16. Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne

Jeanine Henning

#17. My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.

Gary Johnson

#18. dentition and witch-like pointed features.

Priscilla Masters

#19. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Thomas Merton

#20. [T]hose most precious memories are hidden in the safest place of all. Safe from fire or floods or war. In stories. Stories remembered, until they are ready to be told. Or perhaps simply ready to be heard.

Aminatta Forna

#21. It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

#22. Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

Alex Lane

#23. Most modern comedy is crap.

Adrian Edmondson

#24. When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

Beth Ditto