Knife Quotes
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My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.
Natsuki Takaya
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus
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...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.
Barry Lyga
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.
Charles Dickens
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Rene Daumal
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
Lord Byron
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Every footfall, every voice was Don Achille creeping up behind us or coming down toward us with a long knife, the kind used for slicing open a chicken breast. There was an odor of sautéing garlic. Maria, Don Achille’s wife, would put me in the pan of boiling oil, the children would eat me, he would suck my head the way my father did with mullets.
Elena Ferrante
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
Arman
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
Conn Iggulden
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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
Albert Camus
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barten Holyday
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Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.
Barbara
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Lao Tzu
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Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.
Varg Vikernes Burzum
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Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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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
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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
Courtney Milan
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I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
Tim Ferriss
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Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.
Hannah Woolley
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The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
Harry S Truman
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I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
Ethan Canin