Top 1200 Sharp Edges Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky.

Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

A photograph has edges the world does not.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.

There are three versions of the hook. There's one that's solid metal and it's really heavy. It's sharp. It's not super sharp but it has a point, and because of the weight you could do some serious damage with it. And then there's an aluminium one which is a bit lighter, and then there's a rubber one for if you're to do stunts or there's any danger of cutting someone. Although sometimes I like to switch it out! It's the perfect coffee cup holder - it's literally the exact size. And if you've only got one hand and you're holding some food, it's great to put it on.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?

No human being who is in their centre can be hypnotised. That's what needs to be remembered. No human being who is in their centre, who is being guided, who is close to their intuition, who is a sharp, critical apparatus, who has got a sharp sense of judgement, can ever be manipulated.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

When I started, the music I would be drawn to would be heavy metal and new wave like Black Sabbath - things that seemed more shocking - and then, of course, eventually I would find bands and writers who were laying things out very clearly and whose words felt very sharp to the touch and sharp to your feelings.

I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap.

I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp focus at certain times, as particularly relevant and sharp in what they have to say to our culture at any given moment of history. And Jeremiah is a book for our times.

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.

I don't have hard edges.

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

There are no edges to my loving now.

It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

It's fun to be at the edges, and tough to be squeezed in between.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers.

I'm pretty rough around the edges, but I'm a very open person.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

The sharp employ the sharp.

I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers, which likewise coalesce at the edges. Thus two main tubes are formed, one above the other. During the formation of these, the embryo separates into strata, so that the two main tubes are composed of subordinate tubes which enclose each other as fundamental organs, and are capable of developing into all the organs.

I didn't get into politics so that I could take little bites around the edges.

The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

Cutting edges are always a little rough.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

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.

You don't need a specialty lame (French for 'blade') to make professional-level bread at home, but it certainly helps in creating those telltale slash marks. You need a truly razor-sharp edge to make a clean cut; even a sharp paring knife will drag as it moves through the wet dough.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Money pads the edges of things.

I'm quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.