Quotes About Sharpness

If all a man's faculties can be concentrated on one point, it will be like a spike; a blunt object cannot penetrate an obstacle, it has to be sharpened, and then it can easily thrust its way through anything.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless.

We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it, and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do. Disappointment is a a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Shisha ke maida shod, tiztar misha,' runs a Haz?ra proverb: broken glass becomes sharper.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

It's useless, I groaned, sinking to the floor. It'd take months to get ready for this. I don't have a hope in hell. Of course you do! Vanez roared. Squatting beside me, he poked me in the ribs. Feel that? he asked, jabbing a sharp finger into the soft flesh of my belly. Ow! I slapped his hand away. Quit it! It's sharp? he asked, jabbing me again. It hurts? Yes! He grunted, jabbed me one more time, then stood. Imagine how much sharper the stakes in the Hall of Death are, he said.

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He had tried to catch her out, but always she thought ahead of him. Her wits moved quick. The snow leopard was sharper than the black bear.

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.

That bastard c'n spot a gnat from three miles off, an' then read its mind.

A small smile turns up a corner of my mouth. I feel the sharpness of my teeth and roll my tongue over them. For the first time, I like the feeling.

He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

A smart model is a good model.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

To say she was bitter fell a wee bit short, like calling sulfuric acid tangy.