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of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues. -- Paulo Coelho
I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street. -- Spike Lee
Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear. -- Sandra Gulland
Word - that invisible dagger. -- Emile M. Cioran
I will speak daggers to her, but use none. -- William Shakespeare
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. -- Thomas Paine
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying -- Robert Jordan
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. -- Douglas Malloch
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? -- William Shakespeare
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. -- Emile M. Cioran
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. -- Joseph Addison
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. -- William Shakespeare
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? -- William Shakespeare
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. -- Margaret Cho
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. -- Benito Mussolini
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. -- R. A. Salvatore
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal. -- Ambrose Bierce
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin -- Tryon Edwards
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. -- Samuel Johnson
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing. -- William Cowper
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I. -- Janet Fitch
I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger! -- Angelina Jolie
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? -- William Shakespeare
Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show what I want to see. In fact,it hardly ever does' 'Please,'Percy said.'Try again.' He pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help.Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. 'Fine,'she sighed,and drew her dagger -- Rick Riordan
I like poems that are daggers that sing. -- Frederick Seidel
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. -- Josh Billings
He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers. -- Pete Wentz
The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken. -- Shannon L. Alder
Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers. -- Sheri S. Tepper
They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. -- Ray Bradbury
One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it. -- T.F. Hodge
Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. -- T.F. Hodge
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I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers. -- Natasha Friend
Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372 -- John Flanagan
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Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her.Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate. -- Kiersten White
Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice. -- Cassandra Clare
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs -- Bruce Sterling
The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs. -- Elizabeth Hardwick

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