Knives In Back Quotes

#1. Oh my God, Michelle thought, I think we're making love. It was a term everyone barfed at. No one wanted to make love, people wanted to fuck, to take each other's skin apart with knives and pin it back together with needles.

Michelle Tea

#2. To avoid stabs on the back
you have to look behind
while moving forward.
I'd rather have knives in my back
than fall into a manhole!

Manoj Vaz

#3. Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It's also where the knives are kept.

Laurie Penny

#4. If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

Malcolm X

#5. I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this,

Michael Richards

#6. ...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

Emma Chase

#7. My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

Ethel Waters

#8. She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. 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

#10. It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back.

George R R Martin

#11. My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

David Lange

#12. Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.

Seanan McGuire

#13. The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

Harry S. Truman

#14. Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

Kumail Nanjiani

#15. Libya is divided into tribes and clans.

Vladimir Putin

#16. When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

Malcolm X

#17. What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

Sylvia Plath

#18. My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#19. The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

Charlemagne

#20. Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. The future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

C. D. Broad

#22. It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

#23. For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Michael Crichton

#24. With paranoia on my heels
Will you love me still
When we awake and you see that
The sanity has gone from my eyes?

Colleen Hoover

#25. You can't eat coconut without breaking its shell; you can't succeed without breaking the cycle of failure.

Vinita Kinra

#26. Mark Anthony had established ascendance the day before by springing claws like flick knives and hissing like a maddened cobra. Dirk had rolled on his back and ratified the peace treaty before the ink was dry, like a dog of sense.

Victoria Clayton

#27. In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

Jack Abramoff

#28. Marcus smiled back at her nervously, eyeing not only the rifle but the pair of knives he now saw clipped to her belt. Not one knife - a pair of knives. Who needs two knives? How many things does she have to cut at once? He was in no hurry to find out.

Dan Wells

#29. I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

Muhammad Ali

#30. Ah, ambushes. Those take me back. The best ones are the ones that start with chloroform and handcuffs, and end with death threats and knives. And by 'best' I mean 'most irritating,' you understand.

Seanan McGuire

#31. I've lost my mind," Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. "I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

Lynsay Sands

#32. One day, dude, I'm just gonna get off the bus, and I'm gonna.. I'm gonna run into the woods, and I'm never coming back! And when I come back, I'm gonna be the knife master! ... And I'm never coming back! And when I come back ...

The Rev

#33. I didn't expect a knife, though. Is it the one missing from the kitchen?"
"Did Rand report it?" I felt betrayed. Why hadn't he just asked for it back?
"No. It just makes sense to keep track of large kitchen knives, so when one goes missing you're not surprised when someone attacks you with it.

Maria V. Snyder

#34. Carving?"
"Your name. My back. I can't fucking wait."
Jane whistled under her breath. "Do I get to do it?"
He barked a laugh. "No!"
"Come on. I'm a surgeon, I'm good with knives.

J.R. Ward