Blades Quotes - Page 11

• The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspirational, Believe, Angel

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

  Patricia Briggs

  Stupid, Anger, Opponents

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• Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Humanity, Mind

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

  Laozi

  Men, Hair, Tree

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• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Pain, House, Do Not Fear

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.767, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Mind, Acres

  Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins

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• I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Brother, Eye

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.69, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and undid the strap of her knife sheath, putting it and the knife on the bedside table. "Beautiful as this sheath is," he said, touching the leather, "I much prefer the one which holds my blade.

  Nalini Singh

  Beautiful, Kissing, Knives

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• And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

  Robin McKinley

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)

  John Berger

  Reality, Imagination, Earth

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• His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

  Veronica Roth

  Hair, Two, Secret

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• My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.

  Nalini Singh

  Mother, Eye, Balls

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.3, Penguin

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• Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Knives, Fearless

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Dark, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

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• Will remembered the two of them, running through the dark streets of London, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, seraph blades gleaming in their hands; hours in the training room, shoving each other into mud puddles, throwing snowballs at Jessamine from behind an ice fort in the courtyard, asleep like puppies on the rug in front of the fire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Dark, Fire

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.

  Ilona Andrews

  Knives, Two, My Best Friend

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.32, Penguin

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• Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Blood, Knives, Voice

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid: English & Bulgarian”, p.16, Hans Christian Andersen

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Unseen, Elbows

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

  Conrad Aiken

  Sweet, Sky, Forever

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Discordants”

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• In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Mind, Growth

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.80

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• A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Needs, Worst

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Kids, Apples

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