He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Technology is always a double-edged sword.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.

My son loves swords and shields and dragons.

I lived with a ninja once: a black guy with dreads who smelled like onions and garlic. He had a magic sword. Whenever you touched the sword, he knew about it. I don't know how.

I don't carry sai blades for the sake of it in my personal life. I had to learn how to manipulate the sais. It was very tricky, because it's a weird shape. It's like a big fork. There's a lot of ways that you can use them, but it's not like a sword.

In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

L.A. malls are so different than a 'mall' mall like we probably all grew up with that had a food court and the sword shop, the yo-yo kiosk.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.