Blades Quotes

• A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

  Ray Mears

  Blunt, Dangerous

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• I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

  Herman Melville

  Views, Hands, Knowing

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Greek, Letters

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• Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

  Michelle Sagara

  Two Sides, Forever, Coins

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Courtlight”, p.217, MIRA

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• There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

  Ouida

  Cutting, Knives, Treachery

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Steel True, Blade Straight.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Tombstone, Steel

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

  Homer

  Deeds, Violence, Odyssey

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• Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

  James M. Barrie

  Weapons, Temper

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Hands, Knives

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.418, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

  Hsing Yun

  Reality, Views, Knives

  Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Integrity, Vices

  Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.224, Princeton University Press

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Worry, Stressed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Razors, Care

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

  Steven Brust

  Knives, Style, Wizards

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Book of Athyra”, p.134, Penguin

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• And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

  Will Arnett

  Brother, Writing, Guy

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• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

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• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Nature, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  Tom Lehrer

  Heart, Past, College

  "Song: "Bright College Days" ("An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer")". March 20-21, 1959.

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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

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• I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

  Tim O'Brien

  Moving, Dark, Years

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

  Brion James

  Forever, Blade Runner, Runners

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• Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

  Philip Pullman

  Stars, Fall, Home

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.

  Kate Chopin

  Strong, Wings, Arms

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening and Selected Short Stories”, p.141, First Avenue Editions

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• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Tired, Hollywood

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• Playing the assholes in the movie is fun.

  Will Arnett

  Fun, Glory

  "Interview: Will Arnett and Amy Poehler". chud.com, March 29, 2007.

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