Best Sharply Sayings
143 Sharply quotes by 126 unique authors
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But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the…
— Barack Obama
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"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told.…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,…
— Vincent de Paul
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One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest…
— S. J. Perelman
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When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people…
— Henry Hazlitt
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
— Milton Friedman
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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
— Charles Dickens
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would…
— William Shakespeare
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Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by…
— Max Beerbohm
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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were…
— Stuart Symington
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Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities?…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a…
— Gerhard Richter
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Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no…
— John F. Kennedy
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Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs,…
— Matthew Parris
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Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster,…
— Manohla Dargis
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Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for…
— Howard Pyle
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Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.
— Felix Kramer
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How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response.…
— Al Gore
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