Quotes About The Sword In The Stone

#1. We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord Rahl.
-Commander General Trimack

Terry Goodkind

#2. The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen a knife, you draw the blade of the knife across the sharpening stone. Following your outbreath is like drawing the blade of mind across the breath. Then

Chogyam Trungpa

#3. Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon's opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.

Sully Tarnish

#4. Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Thomas Malory

#5. And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Viktor E. Frankl

#6. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india's struggle for freedom

Bhagat Singh

#7. Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#8. Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

Terry Goodkind

#9. The main thing, when a sword cuts into one's soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable.

Franz Kafka

#10. Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

#12. And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.

Robert Jordan

#13. Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

Perry Stone

#14. Age and illness made one a dualist

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.

James Van Praagh

#16. Terrorism is about Culture, not Religion.

A.E. Sawan

#17. I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.

Elizabeth Knox

#18. It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymous power, which, without any democratic public control, regulates their lives.

Slavoj Zizek

#19. You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Seth Godin

#20. I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'.

Helen Macdonald

#21. A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Joan Jett

#22. You see, that sword which I pulled out of the stone in the vision represented my kingdom position which I had to embrace and do something with.

Jesse Cupp

#23. I've always been a bit puzzled about that story. What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh? There

Terry Pratchett

#24. Education is experience and experience is self-reliance.

T.H. White

#25. Clarent and Excalibur. Together. Yesterday, he had held them in his hands and watched as the two swords had fused together to create a single stone sword. Even from across the room, Dee could feel the power radiating from the object in long slow waves.

Michael Scott

#26. We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

James D. Watson

#27. What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#28. Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.

Marcus Aurelius

#29. Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow. A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd. From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. ...

George R R Martin