Sharpest Quotes

66 quotes by 60 authors

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. — Anne Frank
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. — Robert Kennedy
The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we… — Dean Koontz
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives… — Gerard Way
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcastâ€”alternately tempestuous and sereneâ€”so is the life… — Edmund Burke
Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw... — Erin Hunter
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to… — Thornton Wilder
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying… — Charles Dickens
Time apparently did nothing but blunt griefâ€™s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. — Stephen King
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. — Jack Zipes
Itâ€™s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. Itâ€™s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of.… — Anne Tyler
I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so… — Steven Erikson
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. — George Eliot
For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary… — Harsha Bhogle
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate. — John Lyly

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