Sharp Quotes
863 quotes by 710 authors
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She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead against her hard…
— Christopher Paolini
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You don’t know what you’re talking about.†– Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
— Richard P. Feynman
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Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
— Lucy Grealy
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Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million…
— Cindy Gerard
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Who wants a bag of bones?†he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m…
— Charlaine Harris
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And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you…
— Michel Foucault
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You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
— Haruki Murakami
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The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them…
— Anna Sewell
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I’d better get going or Valek will be wondering where I am.†“Yes, by all means go. I noticed you and Valek have become close.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
— John Green
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...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
— Donna Tartt
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True knights protect the weak.†He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and…
— George R. R. Martin
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Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips…
— Holly Black
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To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life…
— Suzanne Collins
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One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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