Gutting Knives Quotes

#1. Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn) #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story. #Quote by Frank Yerby

#3. Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be."
"That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?" ...
"You've been paying close attention, haven't you?"
"I like to observe people/"
"Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar. #Quote by Veronica Roth

#4. See how the symbols stretch across all three shields? They represent a god."
Hypnos frowned. "There's a God of lions and knives and wineglasses? That seems incredibly specific."
"This god is Shezmu," said Enrique, rolling his eyes. "He's seldom depicted, perhaps because he's at such odds with himself. On the other hand, he's the lord of perfumes and gracious oils, often considered something of a celebration deity."
"My kind of god," said Hypnos.
"He is also the god of slaughter, blood and dismemberment."
"I amend my original statement," said Hypnos. #Quote by Roshani Chokshi

#5. It sure if terrific to be in the back seat of a car full of all the people in your affinity group, and as you zip down the center of the road the radio is going boodeley-boodeley-boo in some bluegrass heart song to open space, and, whoopee, you're hugging all the committed girls who love you just as the boys love you but even more so, maybe, because Bug never forgot that a Swiss army knife, for instance, does everything well and nothing excellently; and to do something excellently a good navy surplus kelp-slitting blade is far superior to a thousand sawtoothed frogman's specials; and a gun is worth a thousand knives; and a good friend is worth a thousand guns; and ten minutes' bored talk about the weather with any girl is worth a thousand friends at your back on the Great Trek of 1836, at least at that time in his life, perhaps because until he joined the affinity group none of his friends had ever been girls; but now everyone was his friend, especially the girls (but he only thought that; he didn't say it, didn't want anyone to claim that he was a sexist). #Quote by William T. Vollmann

#6. Never lick a steak knife. #Quote by Dave Barry

#7. You have the skills," Chaol said, "but some of your moves are still undisciplined."
"That's never stopped me from killing before," she spat.
Chaol chuckled at her agitation and pointed his sword at the rack, allowing her to get to her feet. "Pick another - something different. Make it interesting, too. Something that will make me sweat, please."
"You'll be sweating when I skin you alive and squish your eyeballs beneath my feet," she muttered, picking up the rapier.
"That's the spirit."
She practically threw the rapier into place, and drew the hunting knives without hesitation.
My dear old friends.
A wicked smile spread across her face. #Quote by Sarah J. Maas

#8. When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife. #Quote by Fatih Akin

#9. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier? #Quote by Diane Ackerman

#11. I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. "She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor." He threw to knife at Jason.
"He threw it back as Venom added, "Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court sleeps. #Quote by Nalini Singh

#12. It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display. #Quote by Tama Janowitz

#13. When he spoke, his words seared through the air like so many knives, clipped as topiary, crisp as biscuits. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#14. Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships #Quote by Geri Halliwell

#15. Now I will walk, as if I had an end in view, across the room, to the balcony under the awning. I see the sky, softly feathered with its sudden effulgence of moon. I also see the railings of the square, and two people without faces, leaning like statues against the sky. There is then a world immune from change. When I have passed through this drawing room flickering with tongues that cut me like knives, making me stammer, making me lie, I find faces rid of features, robed in beauty. #Quote by Virginia Woolf

#16. A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit. #Quote by Lloyd Paul Stryker

#17. He was walking through the desert, over burning sands, past bones whitening in the sun. He had never been so thirsty. When he swallowed, his mouth felt as if it were coated with sand, his throat lined with knives. #Quote by Cassandra Clare

#18. Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. #Quote by Lloyd Grove

#19. What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife. #Quote by J.R. Ward

#20. Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time. #Quote by Molly Ivins

#21. words
have always buried themselves in me so deep
like knives
I have always twisted them
making beautiful things ugly
changing hello to goodbye
creating wounds our of nothing #Quote by Shelby Eileen

#22. I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles. #Quote by Kellan Lutz

#23. Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside #Quote by Ashley Jeffery

#24. I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you're into that sort of thing. #Quote by Jill Soloway

#25. A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. #Quote by Homer

#26. I have romanticised you to the point where the knives you pressed into my skin began to look like cupids arrows. #Quote by E.J. Wood

#27. I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much. #Quote by Rabih Alameddine

#28. The long knives made short work. #Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

#29. She nods. "We have five knives, two guns, and a big hole."
I look up into her innocent blue eyes and try not to smile. "Erm, okay."
"If you do anything bad, I will shoot you and put you in the hole."
Aah. Now I see why she was rattling off the inventory. #Quote by Beckie Stevenson

#30. The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads. #Quote by Stephen Crane

#31. You and I," she said slowly, saying each word with care, "are a pair of scissors."
"A pair of scissors…" I replied, unsure of what she meant.
"Alone, we're knives. Sharp and nasty, made to hurt others. But together, we are scissors. Better, safer, more useful. But more than that, we are our missing halves. And whatever comes between us, we destroy."
"I like that," I told her.
"You don't think it's creepy?" she asked tentatively.
"No, it's not creepy. Because I love you. #Quote by Vince O. Teves

#32. The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. #Quote by Mason Cooley

#33. 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. #Quote by Henry Glassford Bell

#34. Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart. #Quote by Julie Garwood

#35. "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course." #Quote by Lewis Carroll

#36. First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple. #Quote by Justin Quek

#37. Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. #Quote by Koo Stark

#38. Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you've fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you'd still get in line to do it again. #Quote by Holly Black

#39. I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie. #Quote by Emily Alyn Lind

#40. Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that ... (Much Ado About Nothing) #Quote by William Shakespeare

#41. I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. #Quote by James Russell Lowell