Sharpened Quotes
63 quotes by 61 authors
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of…
— Kate Chopin
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Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to…
— Margaret Cho
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I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty,…
— Dani Shapiro
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The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.
— Sid Grossman
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I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to…
— Bruce Lee
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The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
— Ben Vereen
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Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they…
— George S. Patton
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Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we…
— Pablo Neruda
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There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
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Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates,…
— A.M. Homes
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The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy:…
— John Keegan
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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from…
— William Alexander
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Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for…
— Jamie Wyeth
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Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
— Charles Dickens
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What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special…
— C.S. Lewis
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