The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
Frank Herbert
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KELLY JONES And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
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ANURAG SHOURIE For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta
SUZANNE COLLINS In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it.
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PATRICK NESS We are the choices we make.
PATRICK NESS And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing bac...
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PHILIP PULLMAN He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in ...
T.S. ELIOT You can count on one hand the big monopolization success stories; you can count on more than one han...
WILLIAM KOVACIC There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is mor...
JACOB BRONOWSKI Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twic...
DAMIAN MARLEY Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Effective leaders know how to be less hammer and more Swiss army knife.
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[He can give little to his servant that ...
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RICHARD CARLSON A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For ...
W.B. YEATS Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
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JOHN OWEN The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. “Nice knife.” The voice was deep but ...
ILONA ANDREWS At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.
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DEAN KOONTZ Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.
DAVID WONG I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo...
GAIL SIMMONS She looked at the knife, her throat tight with emotion. No roses or rings with him, but a knife with...
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ZEENA SCHRECK If you have the trust of somebody, betraying that trust is like a knife in the back.After that knife...
GARY F EVANS... Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's d...
PATRICK NESS Here
It's like the song of a family where everything's always all right, it's a song of belongi...
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LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON One security guard was wrestling with him while he was shooting. The El Al security guard left the c...
MATT MCLAUGHLIN Lada looked up into her father's eyes, deep-set and etched with years of cunning and cruelty. She no...
KIERSTEN WHITE ~ Carry your anger around in one hand, and a poisonous spider in the other, both are dangerous, t...
NICOLE STRANTZ The smiler with the knife under the cloak
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of c...
EMMA CLINE Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife
I sharpen heart on heart inside me.
YEHUDA AMICHAI Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Someone gave him a new knife.
WRONG WILLIE A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it c...
ALICE HOFFMAN Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.
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JEANETTE CORON Hands. The word 'hand' is mentioned more than 593 times in the Bible. Science tells us that the hand...
JOHN B. BEJO We cannot stay another year; we want to go now, before another year has passed, we may all be dead, ...
DULL KNIFE All we ask is to be allowed to live, and live in peace. We bowed to the will of the Great Father and...
DULL KNIFE I have lived my life. I am ready.
DULL KNIFE I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
DULL KNIFE It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.
DULL KNIFE If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?
DULL KNIFE There we found a Cheyenne cannot live. So we came home. Better it was, we thought, to die fighting t...
DULL KNIFE You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.
DULL KNIFE We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head,...
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ROBERT M. PIRSIG To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wond...
MAGGIE SHAYNE Peace and happiness are like Left and Right hand of a human. Right hand is always seeking the harmon...
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IN THE MAKING Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free...
JEFF WILSON In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Don't touch that knife. YOU never need to be holding a knife... I don't give a shit, learn how to bu...
JUSTIN HALPERN The suspect came after police with a knife,
DAVID SACKETT If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
DANA GOODYEAR Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.
ROSHANI CHOKSHI Both joy and gratitude go hand in hand together. More grateful you are more joyful you will be.
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