Blades Quotes - Page 8

• HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

  Alice Walker

  Fear Of Death, Grass, Loses

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.91, The New Press

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• A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

  Pablo Picasso

  Razors, Danger

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• I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Squares, Feet

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• When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

  Dogen

  Two, Religion, Way

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• To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Night, Sky

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• I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

  Robert E. Howard

  Real, Wine, Blue

  "Queen of the Black Coast". Short story by Robert E. Howard, 1934.

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• All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

  Noel Gallagher

  Dream, Mirrors, Razors

  "Song: "Morning Glory" ("(What's the Story) Morning Glory?")". 1995.

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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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• Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grass, Smallest, Galaxy

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• Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Giving Up, Couple

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• All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sleep, Shoes, Chicago

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• My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

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• In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Halloween, Years

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• Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

  William Upski Wimsatt

  Son, Boys, Our Generation

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• I would not knock old fellows in the dust
  But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
  His weapons were the old heart in his bust
  And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Dust, Teeth

  John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”

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• The cool blade
  Severs between coolness, apple-rind
  Compelling a recognition.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Knives, Apples, Fruit

  Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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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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• It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

  Rosita Forbes

  Flower, Essence, Tree

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Contentment, Shade, Taught

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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• He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hands, Bears, Ridicule

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
  The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
  Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
  Of grass, and every atomie of earth
  To utter it like dew.

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Dear Lord, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.406

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