It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking

Henry David Thoreau

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Nadine Gordimer

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Benjamin Franklin

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Paul Lynde

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished

Titus Livy

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich von Schiller