A Quote by Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton

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Blow Deeper Strikes Sword Than Word

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Robert Burton
English - Writer
February 8, 1577 - January 25, 1640

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.

Bruce Springsteen

Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

Brandon Sanderson

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

Charles Horton Cooley

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

Vita Sackville-West

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

Yitzhak Shamir

A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

Adolf Hitler

You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper!

Dave Ramsey

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Aeschylus

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

Anthony Ray Hinton

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Jennifer Donnelly

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

Hadewijch

A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.

Heraclitus

You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear young people go, aw, I'm gonna blow up. You gonna blow up but with a controlled explosion. Don't just blow up all over the place.