Knives Quotes

661 Knives quotes by 478 unique authors

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.… — Eduardo Galeano
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake
No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives? — Libba Bray
My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart. — Natsuki Takaya
Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too… — Gregory Maguire
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the… — Zadie Smith
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings… — Frank Herbert
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love. — Charles Bukowski
Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and… — Lisa See
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a… — Anais Nin
I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve… — Federico Garcia Lorca
What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside… — Cassandra Clare
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. — Ilona Andrews
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four… — Scott Lynch
Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work… — Anthony Horowitz
Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. — Robert M. Pirsig
You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on… — Lilith Saintcrow
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering… — Oscar Wilde
In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop… — J R Ward
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -… — Charles Baudelaire
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. — Ray Bradbury
Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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