We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. — Faramir Copy Share Image
I have athletic power that people can't see, that sharpness, the big bang that hits you. — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
The older you get, you do lose a little bit of sharpness. I experienced that myself as a player. — Rob Page Copy Share Image
I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
I've got all the attributes. I've got the sharpness. I've got everything you need to be a top fighter. — Kell Brook Copy Share Image
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma,… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat.,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“What we did not say was that with these hurts an edge was worn down. It happens out of necessity -- it… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense;… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Getting up for sadhana in the morning is a totally selfish act - for personal strength, for personal intuition, for personal sharpness,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image