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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
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Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
- Ansel Adams
The only faith that wears well and holds its color
in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction
and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
- James Russell Lowell
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of
interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless,
all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line:
everyone has a small part of himself in both.
- Vaclav Havel
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
- Denis Diderot
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation
that passes for wisdom among the rich.
- Evelyn Waugh
I have fallen in love with American names,
the sharp names that never get fat.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
Let me say this as clearly as I can:
No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt,
there is no justification for killing innocents.
- William J. Clinton
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young,
became utterly mild.
- Antonia Fraser
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges.
Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
- Donald Rumsfeld
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
- John Trumbull
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines
can tell this at a glance -
a sharp,
vindictive glance.
- James Thurber
A tart temper never mellows with age,
and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows
keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a
right sharp hook in the middle of it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you
as a sharp and efficient tool.
Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so
you can separate them from what you see.
- Bernard Baruch
In nature there are few sharp lines.
- A. R. Ammons
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one,
it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the
cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
- Juan Ruiz
Life is a constant oscillation
between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- H. L. Mencken
He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
- Alan Hansen
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving
Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.
- Eugene Sue
Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.
- Peter Shilton
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
- Vance Havner
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
- Ovid
Witticism.
A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted;
what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
- Ambrose Bierce
A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.
- Robbie Keane
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands
that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach.
Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
- Paul Samuelson
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between
their recreational musings and their professional work.
I don't make that distinction very much.
- Whitfield Diffie
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road,
becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at
which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
- Clarence Thomas
Children have very sharp powers of observation -
probably sharper than adults -
yet at the same time their emotional reactions are
murky and much more primitive.
- Donna Tartt
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
but God to man doth speak in solitude.
- John Stuart Blackie
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
- Menander
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell
him exactly how much paint to put on it,
or exactly how sharp the images should be.
You should let the artist get going.
- Reed Hundt
You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
- James Carville
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology
and individual psychology.
- George H. Mead
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short,
and the pen is very sharp.
- Terry Pratchett
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the
tongue are too punctilious and sharp,
moderate them in your activity and rest.
- Xun Zi
I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
- Ken Starr
Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think,
oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp,
or flat.
- John Eaton
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise,
and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow
for an inevitable fall in playing.
- Samuel Butler
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible,
for what I already possess.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those
who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
- F. E. Smith
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug,
especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
- Hunter S. Thompson
That attitude does not exist so much today,
but in those days there was a very sharp distinction
between basic physics and applied physics.
Columbia did not deal with applied physics.
- Gordon Gould
The sharp employ the sharp.
- Douglas William Jerrold
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp
words if they do not change their ways.
My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
- William Brewster
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision
because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
- Khalil Gibran
Keep your blood clean, your body lean,
and your mind sharp.
- Henry Rollins
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
- James Chiles
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
- Denis Diderot
No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging
those lost in the horrible attacks.
America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve,
and a commitment to her own.
- John Doolittle
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
- George W. Bush
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you,
who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau,
sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".
- Dan Rather
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
- John George Nicolay
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
- Mao Tse-Tung
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus.
Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement.
To act, an actor has to have words.
A stage.
a camera turning.
- Paul Muni
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is
the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast,
for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
- Homer
Though we hear various reports of his existence we
can never find the young wizard who is able so they
say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her
lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates
can ever sever them apart.
- Harry Crosby
I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp,
or keys that most people don't play in,
because they have a better resonance or something.
I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.
- Marian McPartland
And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect,
we find very clear and sharp divisions between the
dialects of the United States,
which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.
- William Labov
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect,
and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding,
excel in whatever studies they pursue,
and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
- Giraldus Cambrensis
I was probably the best that ever walked this earth.
And I could take a punch.
I could deliver a punch.
I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my
punches were sharp and they were crisp.
And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
- Larry Holmes
I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
- Matt Sharp
I've actually become much, much dumber through being
married and having these children.
I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was.
I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade
vocabulary and math work at this point.
- Patrick Warburton
When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp
cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down
upon the Town Hall square.
Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly.
We were in search of the living.
- Philip Gibbs
The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.
- Matt Sharp
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean.
The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox.
The memory on this system allowed us to provide the
user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
- Don Bluth
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