Quotes About Sharpness

Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There

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

Diamond cut diamond.

Reproving with sharpness thus meant reproving with exactness and keen perception, not necessarily severely.

Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind.

He frowned at her now, studying her face-the sharp jaw and small nose, the high forehead over deep-set eyes, the architecture of pride and knowledge and competence that the sharpness of grief could not diminish.

The present cut cleanly, like a scalpel.

era preciso y fiable como una navaja suiza.

Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as determined, and just as capable as the entrepreneurs around you who may better fit the physical pattern - but on the flipside, women who succeed often become razor sharp through the process.

Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

I had not expected him to be in the least senile, but the sharpness of his manner may have been amplified by some apprehension, shared by myself, that changes must have taken place in both of us during the last twenty years, which could prove mutually disenchanting.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

The words fell as the axe of a skillful woodman falls at the root of a young tree and brings it down at a single blow.

Sharp knives, of course, are the secret of a successful restaurant.

The world is full of people with agendas, trying to persuade us to act on their behalf (spend on their behalf, fight and die on their behalf, oppress others on their behalf). But inside us is what Hemingway called a 'built-in, shockproof, shit detector.' How do we know something is shit? We watch the way the deep, honest part of our mind reacts to it. And that part of the mind is the one that reading and writing refine into sharpness.

the pièce de résistance for most of his guests was the appearance of La Catalani. His lordship described her as being as sharp as a Jew, and Colonel Fremantle had certainly found her so.

I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.

There are so many things that make the moment for a submission. There is timing, muscle memory, a lot of times power. When you commit, you have to have power and technique. It has to be sharp.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

You always need to be on your toes.

For sure, competition is healthy. It is! It keeps everybody on their toes. It keeps everybody sharp.

If shrewdness and sharpness be a just cause of separation between man and wife, I think few men in England would keep their wives long.' The