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Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
— Caitlin Moran
Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.
— Simone Elkeles
With his long red beard, and bristling with firearms and knives, he reminded me of a pirate. A very mellow pirate, but a pirate nonetheless.
— Larry Correia
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
— Wally Lamb
A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.
— Hualing Nieh Engle
She was so goddamn beautiful, the way things that could end you were. Guns. Knives. The tawny bird of prey she resembled.
— Anne Calhoun
I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.
— Jenim Dibie
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?""With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest ... — Brandon Sanderson
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
— Katharine Hepburn
I am yours," she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips.
— Kiersten White
You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.
— Kingfisher Pink
I just realized that men get stiletto knives and women get stiletto shoes. This whole thing is fucked.
— Jenny Lawson
Women play on their beauty as children play with their knives. And they hurt themselves on it, too.
— Victor Hugo
It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
— Alanis Morissette
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Mystery always there in my words, now these are knives and will shine like Swords-Samar Sudha — Samar Sudha
Open the hurt locker and see what there is of knives and teeth. Open the hurt locker and learn how rough men come hunting for souls. — Brian Turner
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.
— Gary Lineker
I would never hit a woman - even if she had a knife or a stutter.
— Anthony Jeselnik
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
— Terry Pratchett
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
— Ama Ata Aidoo
Words were his weapon of choice, and he used them like knives.
— Sydney Landon
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
— Stanislaw Lem
Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards ... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,
— Dan Wieden
You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you.
— Katherine Applegate
Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.
— William Shakespeare
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
Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
— Mahatma Gandhi
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
— Robert Farrar Capon
Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
— John Kruk
My brother Felix used to say that my knives would never be as sharp as my tongue, which was a shame.
— Rae Carson
It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right ...
— Bryan Adams
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
— Paul Simon
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
— Kanye West
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
— Patricia Cornwell
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
— Gore Vidal
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.
— Robinson Jeffers
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
— Mason Cooley
It's baffling how some people whose ancestors carved up the world with knives are now worried about defending their piece from the 'outsiders.
— Jonathan R. Miller
Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly! — Kiersten White
Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him.
— Hassan Nasrallah
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
— Ray Bradbury
I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is ...
— Henry David Thoreau
Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.
— Damian Marley
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
— Charles Bukowski
As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.
— Steven Pinker
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
— David Coverdale
This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit.""Yes, He tasted quite delicious. — Brandon Sanderson
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.
— Charles Stuart Calverley
I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.
— Erick Barrondo
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
— Paul Engle
Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
— C.J. Langenhoven
They compose poems to their knives.
— Frank Herbert
Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don't spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives.
— Jason Taylor
The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
— Harry S. Truman
A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.
— Mors Kochanski
If I can wheedleA knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn? — W.S. Gilbert
His knives are nice. Mine is better.
— C.J. Redwine
The knife is is much sharper out of the box as it is in. And It's these knives which pretend more often than not.
— Marc Duncan
Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.
— Sherman Alexie
The cool bladeSevers between coolness, apple-rind
Compelling a recognition. — Charles Tomlinson
I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.
— Charles Bukowski
Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.
— Nathan Hassall
Tell her where the knives go before you use one of them on her.
— Melissa Brayden
I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.
— Lena Dunham
Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.] — George Herbert
Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
— Richard Russo
We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives.
— Claire Fontaine
Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive.
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
— Henry Glassford Bell
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
— Louise Bourgeois
And if you want people to help you, Ron," added George, throwing the paper airplane at him, "I wouldn't chuck knives at them.
— J.K. Rowling
