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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.


Eric Hoffer

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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
MARTY FELDMAN The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.
MARTY FELDMAN Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
LEMONY SNICKET Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
MATTHEW PRIOR Rittner's Computer Law: "Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-...
DON RITTNER Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
TERRY PRATCHETT The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp
TERRY PRATCHETT Pen and ink is wit's plough
JOHN CLARKE I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I just haven't been able to really create the same look with paint that I do with the pen and ink.
ROBERT GROSS Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write...
ETHEL LYNN BEERS (ETHELINDA ELIOT) I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pist...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk c...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The pen is no longer mightier than the sword. Everything the pen writes is censored, untrue, inaccur...
ELIAS SHREVE Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
HONORE DE BALZAC The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER If life’s pen; passion is ink!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR “The Sumerian cuneiform wrote honest history, with no pen, but after the pen was invented, history...
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK If the microphone was his pen and sword, the desk was his field of battle. This is a desk with a sto...
DOUG NORWINE I sleep with the lights on, a pen and a paper to write on
SOTONYE ANGA They say, The pen is mightier than the sword, and the keystroke is mightier still. I say, The pen is...
APURVA GAGLANI Saying of the Prophet.
Ink and Blood:
The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of t...
IDRIES SHAH Saying of the Prophet
Ink and Blood
The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the...
IDRIES SHAH The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
MARK TWAIN Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discove...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.
BRIAN ANDREAS How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed...
BERTHA VON SUTTNER The Pen never lies, history does with vanity
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the world.
JAMES ALLEN The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The pen is mightier than the sword.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The pen is mightier than the sword
AMERICAN PROVERB Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac...
EDGAR WRIGHT That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produ...
IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In Love I find myself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE He that said the pen is mightier than the sword has never been stabbed. He that said the sword is mi...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD History is us and we are history. History is written not with the pen but by our actions, what we do...
DANIEL OKE Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of wha...
BARBARA GOLDSMITH Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Hon...
ANONYMOUS With some pen and paper we can write down lines that shows the freedom without cages
MARK LAMBERT The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs...
BIBLE Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
JAMES ROBERTSON What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbat...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My pen beats faster as I write with my heart
MUNIA KHAN I keep drinking the ink from my pen, and I'm balancing history books up on my head, but it all boils...
CONOR OBERST He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword
BIBLE I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stand...
JOHN THUNE Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the...
MARYA MANNES Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the...
MARYA MANNES It’s very hard to invent a pen but very easy to write with the same.
CHANDAN KUMAR DE I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.
WALT HOLCOMBE I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be ...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
DAVID LEE ROTH Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with you...
HINA HASHMI Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with you...
HINA HASHMI Ink is in the blood, as they say.
TOM COOPER Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T.S. ELIOT I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pe...
ERICA JONG I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pea...
ERICA JONG I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write...
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write...
FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
HORACE WALPOLE Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO (Expletive) great, ... Shave my head, cover me in blood, and I'm into it. Learn to fight with a swor...
PETER DINKLAGE If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.
JAMES GRAHAM How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword
ROBERT BURTON Who with a sword will come to us, he will die by the sword.
ALEXANDER NEVSKY The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY

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ERIC HOFFER Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has hap...
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we r...
ERIC HOFFER One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
ERIC HOFFER Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER