Spears Quotes

• I wield my spear in the name of justice!

  Zhao Yun

  Names, Justice

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• A sharp spear needs no polish.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Needs, Polish

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• Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

  Homer

  Trust, Casts

  Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Black, Mind

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.40, Odyssey Editions

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• He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

  Madeline Miller

  Walking Sticks, Use, Weapons

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.195, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Taken, Sleep

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10392, Aeterna Press

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• Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

  James Stephens

  Peace, Divine, Eternal

  James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.79, Booklassic

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• France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Unity, Three, France

  "France and Her Army". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1938.

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• And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Survival, Roaming

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Tree, Looks

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.711, Penguin

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• And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Children, Military

  Letter to the German rulers (1524) in "The History of Compulsory Education in New England" by John William Perrin, 1896.

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• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

  Bette Midler

  Song, People, Body

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• Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, War, Men

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• Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

  John Keats

  Relationship

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.480, Harvard University Press

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• She danced the dance of flames and fire,
  and the dance of swords and spears;
  she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space,
  and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dance, Stars, Flower

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• What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

  Charlton Heston

  Fear, Mean, Men

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• The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Uprising, People, Elements

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• Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, Rocks, Knives

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• Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started to say, “Who—?” 463/508 Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. “Bad Cyclops Lady!” he bell owed. “General Tyson says GO AWAY!” He hit her again, and Ma Gasket broke into dust.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Circles, Broken

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• I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Baby, School

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.

  Rick Riordan

  Monsters, Bob, Ends

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

  Rick Riordan

  Zero, Down And, Next

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