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They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn’t have to hear the godawful screaming. I’m exhausted and my blood boils and there’s nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead… – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 10 months ago
They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6 brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at it( them) as patriots, they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. This time they are determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I had a bad practice before, it was a little bit of a dagger in the heart. I would be very, very affected by that, now, I just want to go home and immediately give my wife and baby a hug and a kiss. – Nathan Adrian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I saw the big bulbous head, the tiny dorsal fin way back on its back and the dagger teeth, I knew exactly what it was. It also had an odd blowhole thats farther up than any other whale and slightly off-center. – Jim Serpa	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The discovery of the dagger was emotional. We were lost for words, imagine: Though thousands of Roman soldiers were stationed in Haltern over almost 15 years or more, there are only a few finds of weapons, especially complete and intact ones. – Bettina Tremmel	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach – Idiom	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Who can understand that a rejected asylum seeker who has been tried several times for various violent crimes cannot be deported, but the same man manages to travel back to his home country in a cloak and dagger operation? – Christian Baldauf	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
About seven seconds on the clock he just kept going backward, I don’t know why, but he just threw it up and I didn’t think it had any chance of going in, that was kind of like a dagger shot. It just gave us all the momentum back. – Klay Thompson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You'd think that men would be incentivized to use the best dagger possible once their life is on the line, it provoked the question : did they differ in terms of their mechanical efficiency ? – Nathaniel Dominy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Sanctuary campuses are not only part of a radical attack on America’s social, political, and educational establishment but a dagger aimed at the rule of law and the nation’s safety. – David Horowitz	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin. – President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Using sacred Islam's name, exploiting it, this terrorist group which spills Muslim blood has gone as far as attacking the town where the mosque and blessed remains of our Prophet are located, daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin. – President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
At home in the fourth quarter, I felt like we could go for that dagger punch and didn't really put any pressure on the defense, that's something that is tough to kind of swallow with the opportunity we had in front of us. – Stephen Curry	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In Burma, everything was cloak and dagger, you didn't leave a paper trail, for your own protection. You didn't talk about things openly, you didn't share information because you couldn't trust anybody. – Sally Thompson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The maintenance of national security in general and the conduct of intelligence work, in particular, is not the Cold War era, cloak-and-dagger myth which is continuously advanced by the popular media. – Ellen Molekane	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A candour affected is a dagger concealed. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn’t have to hear the godawful screaming. I’m exhausted and my blood boils and there’s nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead…

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6 brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at it( them) as patriots, they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. This time they are determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I had a bad practice before, it was a little bit of a dagger in the heart. I would be very, very affected by that, now, I just want to go home and immediately give my wife and baby a hug and a kiss.

– Nathan Adrian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I saw the big bulbous head, the tiny dorsal fin way back on its back and the dagger teeth, I knew exactly what it was. It also had an odd blowhole thats farther up than any other whale and slightly off-center.

– Jim Serpa

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The discovery of the dagger was emotional. We were lost for words, imagine: Though thousands of Roman soldiers were stationed in Haltern over almost 15 years or more, there are only a few finds of weapons, especially complete and intact ones.

– Bettina Tremmel

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

– Idiom

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Who can understand that a rejected asylum seeker who has been tried several times for various violent crimes cannot be deported, but the same man manages to travel back to his home country in a cloak and dagger operation?

– Christian Baldauf

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

About seven seconds on the clock he just kept going backward, I don’t know why, but he just threw it up and I didn’t think it had any chance of going in, that was kind of like a dagger shot. It just gave us all the momentum back.

– Klay Thompson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You'd think that men would be incentivized to use the best dagger possible once their life is on the line, it provoked the question : did they differ in terms of their mechanical efficiency ?

– Nathaniel Dominy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Sanctuary campuses are not only part of a radical attack on America’s social, political, and educational establishment but a dagger aimed at the rule of law and the nation’s safety.

– David Horowitz

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin.

– President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Using sacred Islam's name, exploiting it, this terrorist group which spills Muslim blood has gone as far as attacking the town where the mosque and blessed remains of our Prophet are located, daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin.

– President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

At home in the fourth quarter, I felt like we could go for that dagger punch and didn't really put any pressure on the defense, that's something that is tough to kind of swallow with the opportunity we had in front of us.

– Stephen Curry

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In Burma, everything was cloak and dagger, you didn't leave a paper trail, for your own protection. You didn't talk about things openly, you didn't share information because you couldn't trust anybody.

– Sally Thompson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The maintenance of national security in general and the conduct of intelligence work, in particular, is not the Cold War era, cloak-and-dagger myth which is continuously advanced by the popular media.

– Ellen Molekane

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A candour affected is a dagger concealed.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

– Tyron Edwards

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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