Edged Quotes
106 quotes by 93 authors
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I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother…
— Jennifer Crusie
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To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help.…
— Dan Ariely
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Torture can be a two edged sword.
— Christine Feehan
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Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
— John Muir
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She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she…
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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No,†he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.†Elena laughed at…
— Nalini Singh
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This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow…
— Franny Billingsley
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Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after…
— Jana Oliver
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In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the…
— Cassandra Clare
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Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged…
— Umera Ahmed
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But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.
— Michael Scott
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You guys take over while I go put on a shirt." Mrs. Kulavich had edged close enough to hear him. She beamed at him. "Don't…
— Linda Howard
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your…
— R A Salvatore
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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with…
— E. O. Wilson
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He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would…
— Julian Barnes
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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more…
— Michio Kaku
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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
— Kevin Bacon
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Engineers are either aggressive or passive aggressive. You need to just dive straight into it, and sometimes there are social repercussions because of it. The…
— Ruchi Sanghvi
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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
— Jason Silva
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