Quotes About Double-edged

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that was an incredible feeling. But there's something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.

Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.

A traição e a violência são facas de dois gumes: ferem os que recorrem a elas por vezes mais fundo do que aos seus inimigos.

but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Yet invisibility is a double-edged sword. It provides protection because sometimes attracting a jerk's attention is even worse than being

Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Jealousy in a relationship is like a double edge sword. A small dose is necessary to reassure that someone truly cares while too much is toxic to the relationship.

Justice ... is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it judges sharply what is right and what is wrong. On the other hand, judgment based on justice naturally calls forth a counter-judgment as a reaction from the side so-judged. Accordingly, we fall into an endless conflict and struggle between judge and the judged.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.