Fencing Quotes

• In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

  Thorstein Veblen

  School, Law, Dancing

  The Higher Learning in America ch. 7 (1918)

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• I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

  Vivien Leigh

  Dancing, Elocution

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• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  Patrick Stewart

  Horse, Character, Romance

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• I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Giving, Training, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspirational, Dance, New York

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

  Rick Perry

  Reality, Hands, Ideas

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Perry". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2011.

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• The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

  Moliere

  Two, Giving, Secret

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• Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fighting, Risk, Chess

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• Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Distance, Waiting

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• The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

  Robert Fulghum

  Water, Care, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books

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• Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

  Neil Diamond

  Firsts, Winner, Made

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• He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Riding, Fortresses

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge

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• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

  William Goldman

  Sports, Pain, Revenge

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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kids, Warrior, Would Be

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.74, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Strong, Exercise, Opposites

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• The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

  Wilkie Collins

  Women, Sensible, Unprepared

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• As a Muslim youth, though I played a variety of sports growing up in New Jersey, my parents were in search of a sport for me to play where I could be fully covered and not have to modify the uniform. Fencing provided a unique opportunity where I could fulfill my desire to participate in sport, wear the same uniform as my teammates, and adhere to the tenets of my faith to cover my body.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Sports, Growing Up, Unique

  "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

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• You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

  Isla Fisher

  Sports, Horse, Skills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.

  Luke Perry

  House, Four, Stuff

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