Fighting Utility Knife

Famous quotes containing the words fighting, utility and/or knife:

    “Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “When she, and though some said she played
    I said that she had danced heart’s truth,
    Drew a knife to strike him dead,
    I could but leave him to his fate;
    For, no matter what is said,
    They had all that had their hate....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)