Quotes About Sharpened

You are a night-hunting sable, my Marthe, and your fur is soft, and your teeth are sharpened and wounding; but so are mine; so are mine.

Charm, my dear, Cynthia wanted to tell her, is not learned, it is innate. And it is honed by desperation and need and sharpened by application. If you want the truth, that is.

I had heard recently that there were those who thought coffee disturbed a woman's mind. I always found it rather sharpened mine. Perhaps that was the real objection to it.

But it seems to me inevitable that any person who gives thoughtful and imaginative attention to literature must be awakened in his sensibilities, enlarged in his sympathies, sharpened in his critical faculties.

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker

So is there any part of you that's not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

Having drunk a few drops off the whetstone, I've been sharpened up!

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment. ''Do you prefer reading to cards?'' said he; ''that is rather singular.'' ''I prefer a great many things to cards, Mr. Hurst,'' said Elisabeth; ''Not the least of which is the sensation of a newly sharpened blade as it punctures the round belly of a man.'' Mr. Hurst was silent for the remainder of the evening.

her umbrella was of the same style as that of their formidable friend from Egypt, solid enough to knock a man unconscious, with a sharpened ferrule that could, at a pinch, be used to stab someone.

People forget the skates are like knives. Those blades are constantly sharpened... that's why they sound the way they sound. They are blades.

It is a fact increasingly manifest that presentation of real news has sharpened the minds and the judgment of men and women everywhere in these days of real public discussion. We Americans begin to know the difference between the truth on the one side and the falsehood on the other, no matter how often the falsehood is iterated and reiterated. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts, Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart

Sadness is a dagger that's been sharpened to strike at your heart. As days pass, it only gets sharper and sharper.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts,The sharpened life commands its course.

His spirits, sharpened by disliking the bishop as an appetite is sharpened by pickles, took an upward turn.

Mounted on a horse, we were useful in direct proportion to our powers of observation and our ability to interpret what we say, faculties, of course, which are sharpened by interest. And our interest was boundless.

I try to remember that the job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

You can be certain that long patience, and griefs jealously hidden have tempered and sharpened and toughened this woman till everyone cries 'She's made of steel!' No, she is merely made of woman.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

Sonrió, y fue totalmente Shane – afilado pero extrañamente dulce. - Claire, acabo de salir de la cárcel. ¿Realmente crees que trato de ser un santo o algo?

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment