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I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
— Leonard Cohen
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
— Mason Cooley
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
— Donald Rumsfeld
While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.
— John Sharp
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
— Angela Merici
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
— John Sharp Williams
Fangs out? Check. Claws sharp? Check. Plan? Plan? What plan? I'm making this up as I go.
— Garon Whited
The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night - Woman thou art loosed
— T.D. Jakes
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
— Brandon Mull
Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
It's easier to teach a hungry person how to be sharp than it is to teach a sharp person how to be hungry.
— Orrin Woodward
The money The girl stiffened at something she heard in his voice, something jagged and sharp, like words torn by the blade of a knife.
— Billie Letts
I have desired to goWhere springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
A tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom.
— Emily St. John Mandel
Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.
— Dot Hutchison
Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.
— S. Kelley Harrell
I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.
— Sarah Tomp
Everything in the room is like that: unnecessarily solid, abnormally heavy and dangerously sharp.
— Christopher Isherwood
If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.
— Char Sharp
Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings.
— Joseph Conrad
No weapon is sharp enough to penetrate the soul. I'm still singing and smiling and dreaming.
— Mario Rocha
Ah, but you're the insidious typeJane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. — Dodie Smith
We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.
— Justin Halpern
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
— George R R Martin
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
— Thomas Brooks
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. — Toba Beta
The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.
— Robert McCammon
He stole a glance at her profile, the soft curve of her nose, the sharp angle of her chin, the glint of yellow gold against her dark earlobe.
— Shilpi Somaya Gowda
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
— George W. Bush
Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.
— T. Frohock
Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.
— Stephanie Rice
Don't you love your mother, dear?""I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.
— Patricia Briggs
Always-the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions') — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes.
— J.A. Konrath
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
— Katherine Applegate
Some people stay broken, others put themselves back together with all the sharp bits showing? He'd
— Dot Hutchison
Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.
— Doug Sanders
I didn't answer the naked hunger in his eyes.
— Jamie Wyman
The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around.
— Kendare Blake
There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.
— Margery Sharp
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
— Washington Irving
It's strange how you can know something - know the pointy, sharp truth - but still want to bend and blunt the edges so it fits better in your mind.
— Veronica Rossi
Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship. -Deryn Sharp — Scott Westerfeld
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.
— Lauren Oliver
Our vision is sharp, our goals are clear, our resources are huge, our will is strong and we stand tall, ready to face the challenges ahead.
— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Freedom is like a man who kills himselfEach night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood. — Wallace Stevens
Oo, you are so sharp you'll cut yourself one of these days
— Terry Pratchett
A sharp spear needs no polish.
— H. Rider Haggard
Language Barrier We use Latin terms To make us feel smart and sharp (Nobody else cares)
— J.D. Dupuy
Now let us bandy words no more ... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
— R.D. Blackmore
Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.
— Alex Rodriguez
I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.
— Michael Buckley
there is no such thing as patient wisdom to be found in the sharp agony of the teachers.
— Morrissey
You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
— Raymond E. Feist
Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants,
— Jill Paton Walsh
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
— Henry Rollins
I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges.
— Charity Ferrell
Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
— Jane Swisshelm
I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
— Pete Townshend
The thought of his mind wandering while long sharp objects were trying to knock him off his horse alarmed me.
— Courtney Cole
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
— Anna Godbersen
As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.
— Steven Pinker
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
— Abraham Verghese
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours. — W. Ian Thomas
