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When the knife lands you in prison, you're a criminal; when the pen leads you there, you're a fighter. – Sir. Barron Qasem II	added by Aeqasem 2 months ago
What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ? – Hamza Taouzzale	Found on New York Times 10 months 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
As a generalist, I’m really thinking about that part as well and how we can engage with our surgical colleagues to make sure our patients who are from underrepresented groups are leading healthy lives after they’ve gone under the knife so to speak, would we find something different with more rare, complicated surgeries? It’s possible and that goes back to the type of hospitals where patients are getting their care. – Utibe Essien	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of these people say things like, The light cuts through me like a knife. – Norman Rosenthal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting. – Huntington Park Police Department	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I want it out there that a man with a knife can not silence a man with a pen. – New York	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think part of what's going on is there are certain parts of consumers' budgets they don't have much control over, everyone seems to feel like we're on a knife edge. – George Loewenstein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The inner voice is a multipurpose tool, like a Swiss Army knife of life. – Ethan Kross	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Austin Simon wanted me to come apologize to the girl. I took the knife we use to open boxes and I stabbed Austin Simon. – Jose Alba	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Etiquette is more than knowing how to use the right knife and fork, i define it as the ‘art of knowing how to treat other people.’ It's being mindful of how your behavior affects others. – Jacqueline Whitmore	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We shook him down, and we did find a shank in his possession -- a shank is a prison knife -- and we retrieved that. We immediately had him shipped back to the Department of Corrections. – Rick Singleton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Vitally important is that 10 more illegal firearms have been taken off the streets of this city that will never be used to victimize another New Yorker, in addition to the illegal guns, the other arrests were for drug sale or possession, forgery, suspended or revoked driver's licenses, reckless endangerment, felony assault, criminal possession of a knife and criminal trespass. – Keechant Sewell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The reason many fail to cut the tree is, they come with a knife. – Goa Kerle	added by Goa_ 2 years ago
But when you not in that right environment, when you not in that right community, when your mother and father hate people just as much as you do, that grow in you, how it come out? A lot of times in that knife or that gun. – Larry McMichael	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A 56-year-old male was involved in an altercation with an unknown Black male offender who produced a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest. – Chicago Police	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Imagine you’re a clerk in a bodega and are the victim of a knife point robbery, not only could the guy not go to jail, he could get charged with a misdemeanor, that is the definition of insanity. – Daniel Bibb	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both, i had a shooting on my block a month ago, I've had a knife to my neck, I've had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most. – Alvin Bragg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I intentionally caused the death of Tessa Majors by stabbing Tessa Majors with a knife. – Rashaun Weaver	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The four Brooklyn Center police officers who initially responded to the scene used de-escalation tactics and seemed to have calmed down Mr. Dimock-Heisler. Even when he sprang from his chair, grabbed a knife and attempted to stab one of the officers, three officers fired their Tasers, with no effect, then, and only then, did they fire their guns. – Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That was from when a knife stuck in [it], ‘Cause, you know how you throw it up, and you’re supposed to catch it? I looked at [Fox], and I was like, ‘Check this out.’ And I was like, ‘Ugh!'. – Machine Gun Kelly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
According to the employee, he caught up with Richard Lee Richards outside as he fled the store and asked to see a receipt for the toolbox. Instead of providing the receipt, Mr. Richard Lee Richards brandished a knife and said,' Here's your receipt.' richard Lee Richards refused to comply, and instead continued to head through the Walmart and Lowe's parking lots. – Chris Magnus.Remington	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I realized I had dropped my knife, had a little pocket knife. So I picked it up after I got off of him because they tased me and I fell on top of him. – Jacob Blake	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
98 pound special needs inmate brain dead after attack by 240 pound repeat violent offender with knife at understaffed Harris County jail, we shall get justice. – Randall Kallinen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

When the knife lands you in prison, you're a criminal; when the pen leads you there, you're a fighter.

– Sir. Barron Qasem II

added by Aeqasem
2 months ago

What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ?

– Hamza Taouzzale

Found on New York Times
10 months 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

As a generalist, I’m really thinking about that part as well and how we can engage with our surgical colleagues to make sure our patients who are from underrepresented groups are leading healthy lives after they’ve gone under the knife so to speak, would we find something different with more rare, complicated surgeries? It’s possible and that goes back to the type of hospitals where patients are getting their care.

– Utibe Essien

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of these people say things like, The light cuts through me like a knife.

– Norman Rosenthal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.

– Huntington Park Police Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want it out there that a man with a knife can not silence a man with a pen.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think part of what's going on is there are certain parts of consumers' budgets they don't have much control over, everyone seems to feel like we're on a knife edge.

– George Loewenstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The inner voice is a multipurpose tool, like a Swiss Army knife of life.

– Ethan Kross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Austin Simon wanted me to come apologize to the girl. I took the knife we use to open boxes and I stabbed Austin Simon.

– Jose Alba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Etiquette is more than knowing how to use the right knife and fork, i define it as the ‘art of knowing how to treat other people.’ It's being mindful of how your behavior affects others.

– Jacqueline Whitmore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We shook him down, and we did find a shank in his possession -- a shank is a prison knife -- and we retrieved that. We immediately had him shipped back to the Department of Corrections.

– Rick Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Vitally important is that 10 more illegal firearms have been taken off the streets of this city that will never be used to victimize another New Yorker, in addition to the illegal guns, the other arrests were for drug sale or possession, forgery, suspended or revoked driver's licenses, reckless endangerment, felony assault, criminal possession of a knife and criminal trespass.

– Keechant Sewell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The reason many fail to cut the tree is, they come with a knife.

– Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

But when you not in that right environment, when you not in that right community, when your mother and father hate people just as much as you do, that grow in you, how it come out? A lot of times in that knife or that gun.

– Larry McMichael

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A 56-year-old male was involved in an altercation with an unknown Black male offender who produced a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest.

– Chicago Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Imagine you’re a clerk in a bodega and are the victim of a knife point robbery, not only could the guy not go to jail, he could get charged with a misdemeanor, that is the definition of insanity.

– Daniel Bibb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both, i had a shooting on my block a month ago, I've had a knife to my neck, I've had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most.

– Alvin Bragg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I intentionally caused the death of Tessa Majors by stabbing Tessa Majors with a knife.

– Rashaun Weaver

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The four Brooklyn Center police officers who initially responded to the scene used de-escalation tactics and seemed to have calmed down Mr. Dimock-Heisler. Even when he sprang from his chair, grabbed a knife and attempted to stab one of the officers, three officers fired their Tasers, with no effect, then, and only then, did they fire their guns.

– Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That was from when a knife stuck in [it], ‘Cause, you know how you throw it up, and you’re supposed to catch it? I looked at [Fox], and I was like, ‘Check this out.’ And I was like, ‘Ugh!'.

– Machine Gun Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

According to the employee, he caught up with Richard Lee Richards outside as he fled the store and asked to see a receipt for the toolbox. Instead of providing the receipt, Mr. Richard Lee Richards brandished a knife and said,' Here's your receipt.' richard Lee Richards refused to comply, and instead continued to head through the Walmart and Lowe's parking lots.

– Chris Magnus.Remington

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I realized I had dropped my knife, had a little pocket knife. So I picked it up after I got off of him because they tased me and I fell on top of him.

– Jacob Blake

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

98 pound special needs inmate brain dead after attack by 240 pound repeat violent offender with knife at understaffed Harris County jail, we shall get justice.

– Randall Kallinen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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