Knives Quotes - Page 30

• Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. Give 110 percent, and you won't build your body up, but actually break it down. And be no good to yourself or anyone else.

  Sally Jenkins

  Smart, Giving, Training

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• Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

  George Canning

  Blow, Order, Poverty

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.557

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• I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

  Malcolm X

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sleep, Cutting, Years

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• A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.

  Morris Bender

  Party, Gossip

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• Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

  Bill Fitch

  Funny, Basketball, Fighting

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• Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Sassy, Cutting

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.260, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Surgeons must be very careful
  When they take the knife!
  Underneath their fine incisions
  Stirs the Culprit-Life!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Science, Doctors

  "Surgeons must be very careful" l. 1 (ca. 1860)

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• Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

  Sally Jenkins

  Running, Want, Blades

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• You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife

  John Stanfa

  Cutting, Wife, Tongue

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• Run from a knife and rush a gun.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Running, Gun, Mobster

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• Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Real, Islamic

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• It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

  Aldous Huxley

  Wine, Apples, Steel

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• My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

  E. J. Holub

  Football, Fighting, Nfl

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• I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Cutting, Mad

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.106, 谷月社

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• Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

  James Gosling

  Gun, Java, Clubs

  "Object Oriented Programming with C++ (Second Edition)". Book by David Parsons, November 8, 2000.

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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, People

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• You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

  Richelle Mead

  Made, Shorts

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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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• Crazy gets all the knives.

  Mira Grant

  Crazy

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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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• 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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• Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!

  Kiersten White

  Teacher, Fighting, Self

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• Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.

  Tina St. John

  Hunting, Dollars, Three

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• Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Matter, Size, Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2783, Penguin

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