Sharp Quotes - page 3

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. View quote
Mao Zedong
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred. View quote
Stanisław Lem
The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend. View quote
Mario Savio
The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened. View quote
Alfred Rosenberg
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need. View quote
John Milton
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. View quote
Seamus Heaney
Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures? View quote
Anna Sewell
...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. View quote
Mehmet Oz
Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects. (Rick Riordan)
Thanks for everything.” "As you wish,” the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have. "Stay sharp,” Carter told him. View quote
Rick Riordan
Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp. View quote
Frances Hardinge
Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. View quote
Holly Black
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. View quote
Charles Cooley
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. View quote
Brandon Mull
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. View quote
Diane Setterfield
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. View quote
Ally Condie
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form. View quote
Joris-Karl Huysmans
That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you. (Lilith Saintcrow)
It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp. View quote
Billy Gibbons
I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave. View quote
Christian Serratos
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. View quote
Dodie Smith
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. View quote
Flannery O’Connor