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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths. — Mason Cooley

Trust was a double-edged sword. It could give you hope, but it could cut you in an instant when it was broken. — Tiffany King

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints — Edith Sitwell

Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles. — William Gibson

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief. — Martha Beck

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Anger is a double edged sword and it generally cuts the one who yields it the deepest — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing and humourless glares? — Lindsay Buroker

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. — Ron Fournier

A review is a double-edged sword. It will either get people interested, or it might drive people away before they even click "buy". — B.A. Gabrielle

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged. — Janny Wurts

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

The word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword ... . It is a judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 — Beth Moore

Incompetence is a double-edged banana. — John Perry Barlow

The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about. — Janny Wurts

Every gift is edged. — Steven Erikson

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters. — Alan Moore

But hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways. — Charlie Fletcher

The woman from across the street edged along the side porch with some silver-wrapped casserole thing clutched to her chest like a shield. — Jennifer Skully

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. — Murray Rothbard

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. — Phoebe Snow

Anger was sharp edged and clear. Grief was messy, blurry.
But in the end both left you hollowed out inside. — Sarah Ockler

The two men flashed edged smiles at each other, reminding Amaranthe of circling wolves, albeit extremely well-dressed wolves. — Lindsay Buroker

two-edged sword; Her feet go down — Wolf D. Storl

But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. — Virginia Woolf

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors. — Jonathan Frakes

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality. — Vera John-Steiner

Bookseller Praise for Die For Me: 'A blend of hard-edged police — Karen Rose

Love is a double-edged sword. It can be a gift from God or a curse from the devil, all depending on how you chose to wield it. — K'wan

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

You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better. — Pauline Marois

A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, — William Gibson

I don't drink."
"Oh My God, a straight-edged demon! I freaking love it! — Rachel Hawkins

Listen to me, you broken-fanged, moss-wiped excuse for a back-drafted blood bag! Jenks said, a silver-edged red dust slipping from him. — Kim Harrison

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Misfits deal with the double-edged reality of having our differences act as the source of both our challenges as well as our successes. — Tiffany L. Jackson

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. — Jenim Dibie

Tea should be bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword. — Lemony Snicket

The city's all brightness
and shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen. — Ralph Angel

Fame is very much a double-edged sword. — Kevin Bacon

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. — John Dryden

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances — Virginia Woolf

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

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. — John Steinbeck

Information can be such a double-edged sword. — Jessiqua Wittman

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. — Agnes Repplier

Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple. — Angus Wilson

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. — Adrienne Rich

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. — J. Michael Straczynski

Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife. — Louise Bourgeois

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword. — Joyce Meyer

No one creates a double-edged sword without the intent of using both sides. — Priscilla Vogelbacher

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies. — Najib Razak

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. — Nick Hornby

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul

The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there's a strange comfort to the way it hurts. — Richard K. Morgan

Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. — Haruki Murakami

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed. — Richard Paul Evans

He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind.
He will come soon to our world just like a thief in the night. — Toba Beta

heads that edged the huge fireplace, and I — Diana Gabaldon

Free will ... is a double edged sword. It can either lead you down the roads of peace, joy and happiness or the roads of darkness and despair! — Timothy Pina

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

JESUS CHRIST, SHE WAS tight. The more I edged in, the tighter her body squeezed my cock, which inevitably sent pleasure spiraling through me. — Rachel Brookes

King Gaius began to laugh. It was a dark sound edged in danger and it made a chill run up Magnus's back as it echoed through the cavernous hall. — Morgan Rhodes

Torture can be a two edged sword. — Christine Feehan

In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. — Megan Chance

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat. — Jane Fonda

A double-edged sword was more useful than no weapon at all. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever. — Maureen McCormick

Evil is a double-edged sword, if you use it you'll end up cutting you — Miguel El Portugues

He's not afraid to trust anyone. That's his strength. But it's also a double-edged sword. — Hotaru Odagiri

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. — Rachel Sklar

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. — Margaret Cavendish

his memories from this period were something slightly blur-edged and unreliable, — Hanya Yanagihara

Yes, Min. This is how it should be." Raw need edged his voice. "Never settle for less. Be fearless. Wild and loud and lovely. God, you're so lovely. — Tessa Dare

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive. — Rachel Hunter