Blunted Blade Quotes & Sayings

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power. — Ann Aguirre

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. — Laurie Halse Anderson

My ambition is handicapped by laziness — Charles Bukowski

Great Light, the Enemy's power is so fragile! The devils can use only what we ourselves will give them. Do you see? Give them nothing and their power fails; it falls like a spent arrow, like a blade broken and blunted. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Film can become stagnant as a medium. — Rhys Ifans

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go! — William Wordsworth

Mr Bliss looked grave. 'Your brother was very sensible to warn you, Miss Astley - but sadly misinformed. There are no trams in Trafalgur Square - only buses and hansoms, and broughams like our own. Trams are for common people; you should have to go quite as far as Kilburn, I'm afraid, or Camden Town, in order to by struck by a tram — Sarah Waters

Beside them, a sign read NO DOGS, but a man who worked the ferry patted Abby on — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

People say to me all the time, "I get my news from your show." And that isn't the way they should get their news. But the choice is not between getting their news the right way and getting their news from my show. The choice is that they won't get any at all unless you give it to them in an entertaining package. — Bill Maher

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you've given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope . — Terry Fox

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit. — Samuel Beckett

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. — William T. Sherman

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world ... has killed someone or other on their way to the top? ... All I wanted was a chance to be a man
and for that, one murder is enough. — Aravind Adiga