Knives Quotes - Page 31

• He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife—pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want.

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Gps, Water Bottles

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• Crazy gets all the knives.

  Mira Grant

  Crazy

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• Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. That this wound did not blossom yet, did not shine yet, at this hour, made him sad. Instead of the desired goal, which had drawn him here following the runaway son, there was now emptiness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Heart, Fighting

  "Siddhartha".

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• And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Knowing, Trying

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Couple, Hate

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• I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith

  Nalini Singh

  Want, Dangerous

  Nalini Singh (2007). “Visions of Heat”, p.172, Penguin

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• Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.

  Karen Hawkins

  Differences, Tree, Branches

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• Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

  Kim Harrison

  Fall, Way, Cheese

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• I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

  Alice Hoffman

  Cousin, Blood, Born

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

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• Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

  Kim Harrison

  Taken, Winter, Leather Jackets

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• Wait, what are you doing?” She could apparently hear the strain in my voice as I craned my neck from side to side. “I’m trying to see past a little girl on my hood." “Oh. Isn’t that dangerous?” “Normally. But she has a knife.” “Oh, well, then, I guess it’s okay.

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Past, Voice

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.172, Macmillan

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• My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Hate, Tongue, You Don't Love Me

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• Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food

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• A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

  Homer

  Gun, Tools, Weapons

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• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

  Ezra Pound

  Cancer, Cutting, World

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• Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Father, Eye

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• Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

  Leo Baekeland

  Children, Knowledge, Science

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  Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Differences, Giving

  "Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change". Book by Robert B. Seidensticker, 2009.

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• Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

  George Johnson

  Science, Thinking, Games

  George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

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• Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

  Blake Morrison

  Writing, Editing, Use

  "Black day for the blue pencil". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Simplicity, Tao Te Ching

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• I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Crazy, Epic

  "Gwyneth Paltrow: Botox Made Me Look ‘Crazy’ Like Joan Rivers" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Birthday, Brother, Hunting

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• New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Years, Broken

  "Madonna's Back". www.harpersbazaar.com. October 4, 2013.

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