Quotes About Sharpness

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

I like to keep my mind and physical state alert.

The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

it was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

It's no delay to stop to edge the tool.

It is understandable you would want to come back as yourself into a wonderland with the sharpness of colour of the Queen of Hearts in a newly opened pack of cards. But coming back as yourself is resurrection. It is uncommon.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.

Smart people don't have the luxury of playing stupid.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

It is unfortunate that they cannot witness the sight of a fresh cow femur sliced in half by a single stroke of a sharp replica sword.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.

Frail she was, but crafty, with a mind like a spike-toothed

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

Desire was a sharpness, a tear in the static of everyday life... it delivers not an ache, but a sudden state of grace.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she'd drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.