Blades Quotes - Page 11

• Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

  Waris Dirie

  Pain, Eye, Cutting

  "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

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• Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

  Norman Mailer

  Life, Pain, Alive

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Ancient Evenings: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Fire, Air

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• Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3047, Manonmani Publishers

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• The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Faith, Covering, Peers

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• Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
  With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
  Steel-true and blade-straight,
  The great artificer made my mate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Poetry, Gold

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'My Wife'

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• The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kids, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

  Robert Jordan

  Branches, Saplings, Wot

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.352, Macmillan

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• We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.

  Rob Kall

  Spiritual, Teacher, Book

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• This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

  John Quincy Adams

  Peace, Freedom, Blow

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• The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

  Lamar Alexander

  Football, Grandmother, Talking

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• These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

  Jim Michaels

  Wind, Feet, Logging

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• We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Class, Population, Razors

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Islands, Tree, Java

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

  Patti LaBelle

  Anger, Knives, Long

  Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

  Edward Hoagland

  Love, Sleep, Knives

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• And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Gentleman, May, Wander

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Hurt, Recovery

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• I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Twilight, Curves

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate

  Tite Kubo

  Strong, Fate, Giving

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• You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

  Christopher Paolini

  Fire, Names, Imagination

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2259, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Believe, Night

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.79, Penguin Group

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• If it rusts, it can never be trusted
  If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
  Yes, pride is
  Like a blade.

  Tite Kubo

  Pride, Cutting, Bleach

  "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

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• Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Weed, Giving, Infidelity

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