Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.
I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.
Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
I view edge providers as a significant bright spot in our struggling economy. They are tirelessly innovating, growing, and meeting - often exceeding - consumer expectations.
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.
Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.
When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.
People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.
From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.
That's how I choose to approach my career. I'm constantly trying to find an edge and find the next way to improve myself.
He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.
I was what's known as a floater. I could sit at the edge of most cafeteria tables, but was never a part of any one group. I was also a dork. And still am. And proud!
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.
Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
It is important to have a reliable and substantive publication such as World Screen available as a source for information. The magazine's reporting is always on the cutting edge of the global television business.
Mistakes can happen. Sometimes they can build up over the course of an innings and put people even more on edge, which makes it snowball further.
What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.
It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.
If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
I could have played Dot as a very dreary woman with a list of illnesses, but I played her with an edge, so it was funny.
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish
As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.
Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.
His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night.
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
Picatinny Arsenal is essential to the safety of our women and men in the field and to delivering a qualitative edge for our military.
I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.
Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
It's incumbent on you to play games outside your region that will really test you. That's important to keep your edge.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.
I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this, this
...
At the edge of the continent
Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
When people take risks and it's not rewarded, in the case of 'Mirror's Edge,' it's makes it harder for others to be comfortable taking risks.
I like living on that edge, musically. I like a bit of insecurity and that feeling of not really knowing what's going to happen.
You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.
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