Blade Quotes

• Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.

  

  Algis Budrys
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Head

• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Grass
  • Duplicates

• He'd fashioned himself into one hard edge. He was all blade and no handle. If she held him close, she'd risk being cut.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Close
  • Himself
  • Cut

• Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Intelligence
  • Blade

• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Grass
  • Blade
  • Duplicates

• Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wounds
  • Edges
  • Blade

• A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stories
  • Size
  • Blade

• I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Grass
  • Don't Want
  • Blade

• I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hurt
  • Complain
  • Blade

• Make your blade a water-seeking missle

  

  Christopher Allsopp
  • Blade
  • Missle

• The cool blade Severs between coolness, apple-rind Compelling a recognition.

  

  Charles Tomlinson
  • Recognition
  • Coolness
  • Severs

• All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Dreams
  • Mirror
  • Blade

• I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Nature
  • Illness
  • First Gain

• The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Purpose
  • Unity
  • Blade

• Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Truth
  • Blood
  • Blade

• One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Battle
  • Protect
  • Blade

• The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

  

  Homer
  • Violence
  • Deeds
  • Blade

• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Path
  • Paradox
  • Knife

• The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Faith
  • Soil
  • Symbols

• We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Poverty
  • Population
  • Middle-class

• Going into a game against Lew Alcindor later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

  

  Bill Fitch
  • Game
  • Fight
  • Blade

• One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Dead
  • Blade
  • Snickersnack

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

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Error
  • False
  • Knife