#knife

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#gun #justice #knife #long #man

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. ↗

— Koo Stark

#being #handle #knife #like #picking

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#bleed #hand #knife #like #logic

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ↗

— Sam Snead

#club #death #fork #golf #golf club

I was terrified of my weakness, of my sharp tongue, of my every flaw. I was terrified that this moment, my chance to live in happiness for however short a time we may have had, would be ruined because I was simply not carved out of the same wood as happiness, and that my grain was too twisted to ever take its form. ↗

— Amy Lane

#happiness #knife #love #love

Evie: "No way!" I yelled, taking it from him. Bud: "I can't believe I made a pink knife." Evie: "It's so cute! I love it. Finally, a companion worthy of Tasey. ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #funny #pink-knife #tasey #funny

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#debt #favor #friendship #knife #percy-jackson

War makes monsters out of men. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#chaos-walking #patrick-ness #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #men

I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play. ↗

— Gary Carter

#could #cut #day #field #game

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#busy #i #i am #i do #knife