Ella Leya Quotes

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

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• I have a knife collection.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Collection
  • Knife

• A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Good
  • Knife
  • Wields

• But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Die
  • Hand

• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

  

  Alan Paton
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Eyes

• Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

  

  Mary Astor
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Deep

• Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

  

  Pete Wilson
  • God
  • Heal
  • Wounds

• If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Tree
  • Cut
  • Knife

• The physician treats, but nature heals.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Treats
  • Physician
  • Heals

• The physician heals, Nature makes well.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Physician
  • Heals

• "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Human Heart
  • Knife
  • Strings

• Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Love Is
  • Knife
  • Plunge

• Love heals scars love left.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Love
  • Scars
  • Heals

• Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Pain
  • Memory
  • Darkness

• I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Great
  • Knife
  • Plastic

• To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Choose
  • Location
  • Knife

• I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

  

  Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Heels
  • Knife
  • Boots

• The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Tongue
  • Kills
  • Knife

• Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

  

  Claire Cook
  • Life
  • Time
  • Loss

• Patience, time, love, it heals all.

  

  Ray J
  • Love
  • Patience
  • Heals

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Earth
  • Readers
  • Notice

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Danger
  • Rage

• A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Knife
  • Heals
  • Fester