Sharp Quotes
863 quotes by 710 authors
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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
— William Langland
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It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer…
— Naomi Klein
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You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium…
— Robert Doisneau
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We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in…
— Julia Quinn
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There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between…
— Otto Weininger
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious…
— Tayari Jones
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose…
— Tayari Jones
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Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
— Anna Godbersen
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In nature there are few sharp lines
— A. R. Ammons
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us…
— Herman Wouk
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I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always…
— Zutty Singleton
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Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we…
— Connie Foster
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The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you…
— Frederick Lenz
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Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
— Willie Stargell
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A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp,…
— Greg Rucka
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A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with…
— C. Wright Mills
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Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.
— Yasmin Ahmad
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
— Laozi
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar.…
— Maya Lin
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