Knives Quotes

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

A real friend's got your back, while the fake ones are sticking knives in it.

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.

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

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.