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Quotes About Knife

Malevolence is born of negative feelings like lonliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife; an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you.
~ Ry? Murakami
The knife he held was obsidian, sharp enough to cut a dream.
~ S.M. Stirling
America, what happened to your optimism, your new frontiers, your simple Rockwell dreams? I'm plunging into your night, America, pushing myself deep into your heart like a knife, but the blade of my weapon is hope.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you change your mind about the knife,' Grom called after him, smiling all the while, 'you can seek me out.' [...] 'Last time we met... you offered me a knife' Yarvi fixed Grom with his eye. On his knees, ragged and bloodied, but fixed him still. 'You told me to seek you out if I changed my mind. Will you give it to me now?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love and hate have just a knife's edge between them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Logen pulled the knife out of his boot and rammed the blade into the side of the giant's neck. He looked surprised, for just a moment, then blood dribbled from his mouth and down his chin. He let go of Logen's shirt, stumbled back, spun slowly round, bounced off one of the stones and crashed on his face. Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Mason had just pulled his own knife out, a monster of a thing you could've called a sword without much fear of correction.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love and hate have just knife's edge between them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Do you want this bauble?' He drew is knife now and held it out to Yarvi by the bright blade. "Then take it. But know that Mother War breathed upon me in my crib, it has been foreseen that no man kill me.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I can Leap back, the plant thinks. Angie can no longer see what she is doing. Her eyes are shut, her thoughts have stopped. One small hand rests on Andy's neck; the other fist withdraws until the knife points earthward. Down, down, down, the invader demands. Something sighs sharply, and it might be Andy or it might be the entire forest. Leap, Leap, Leap, the Joshua implores.
~ Joe Hill
Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
~ Joe Queenan
I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially.
~ Joey Comeau
Ben had the face of a man who could murder someone in the middle of a crowd, and then talk his way out of it while cleaning the blood off the knife.
~ Joey W. Hill
Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!
~ Conrad Aiken
She is slicing peaches with a special fruit knife.
~ E. Lockhart
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
~ Ed Koch
There'll be no more music, Father. But there'll be this!" He stepped into the dark, picked up the knife, and held it under their noses. "Go home. Tell your people what you saw and heard here tonight. And tell 'em that anyone we catch on these roads after dark anymore... this is what they'll get. Now that I know we're never to see the face o' God, we have nothing to lose. So, make sure you have your message right, Father, 'cause there'll be no other warning.
~ Eddie Lenihan
Three blind mice, see how they run!They all ran after the farmer's wife,She cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a sight in your life,As three blind mice?
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Little Tom TuckerSings for his supper;What shall he eat?White bread and butter.How will he cut itWithout e'er a knife?How will he be marriedWithout e'er a wife?
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? —
~ Frank Herbert
Mapes obeyed, trembling. The eyes without whites stared at Jessica. "You are ours," she muttered. "You are the One." There came another sound of unloading in the entry. Swiftly, Mapes grabbed the sheathed knife, concealed it in Jessica's bodice. "Who sees that knife must be cleansed or slain!" she snarled. "You know that, my Lady!" I know it now, Jessica thought.
~ Frank Herbert
CRYSKNIFE: the sacred knife of the Fremen on Arrakis. It is manufactured in two forms from teeth taken from dead sandworms. The two forms are "fixed" and "unfixed." An unfixed knife requires proximity to a human body's electrical field to prevent disintegration. Fixed knives are treated for storage.
~ Frank Herbert
Arrakis enseña la actitud del cuchillo... cortar lo que es incompleto y decir: Ahora ya está completo porque acaba aquí» De Frases escogidas de Muad'Dib, por la Princesa Irulan.
~ Frank Herbert