Knives Quotes - Page 16

• If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.

  Scarlett Alice Johnson

  Nice, Gun, Order

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.

  Arundhati Roy

  Lying, Hate, Live Life

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I had a kid, and someone had touched my kid, I am sure that if I had a gun or a knife, I would go and stab the person who I supposed touched my kid.

  Gaspar Noe

  Kids, Gun, Persons

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Mistake, What Matters

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness to Putin is a very scary thing for the country and the fact that the news was dominated for 33 days I think it was by WikiLeaks stories, that had an impact on states that were decided by a knife-edge.

  E. J. Dionne

  Country, Thinking, Impact

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Guy, Parent, Way

  "Gilmore Girls' Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Discuss Those Final 4 Words and Whether Stars Hollow Would Vote for Trump". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.vulture.com. December 1, 2016.

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• If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

  Alton Brown

  Eye, Needs, Ifs

  "Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown". Interview with JOe Dziemianowicz, www.nydailynews.com. November 21, 2016.

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• When you see a knife, fork and a spoon it seems to me like there are two of them together on one side of a plate, and then there's one on the other. It seems like a couple and a singleton. It seems obvious to me!

  Richard McGuire

  Couple, Two, Together

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There are American citizens who have been inspired to commit acts of terror on American soil, the latest incident, of course, the bombings we just saw in New York and New Jersey, the knife attack at a mall in Minnesota, in the last year, deadly attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando.

  Lester Holt

  New York, Years, Citizens

  The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

  Pope Francis

  Language, Apostles, Fundamentalism

  Pope Francis’ In-Flight Press Conference from Poland, www.ncregister.com. July 31, 2016.

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• If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

  Robert Sietsema

  Want, Restaurants, Wrists

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Arrows, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

  Alex Lemon

  Joy, Stories, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Fall, Rocks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.160, Random House

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• Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Dark, Men

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• Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!

  B. C. Forbes

  Commitment, Government, America

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• If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

  Gore Vidal

  Hair, Facts, Enough

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

  Stephen King

  Artist, Names, People

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cutting, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.298

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• Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?

  John D. MacDonald

  Country, Passion, Gun

  "The Scarlet Ruse". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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• Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

  William Styron

  Mean, Two, House

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Hurt, Mean, Cutting

  Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “Have a Great Day”, Fawcett Books

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• [There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Appreciate, Important, Noses

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Shoes, White, Black

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