The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.
I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo.
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.
After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.
YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.
It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
You don't have to love each other. I've been on a lot of championship teams in Europe where there's edges and we don't go out to dinner every night.
I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.
I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.
I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.
We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.
A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.
It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
I'm not as sharp as I used to be.
I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.
When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.
My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.
For me, the first thing I do when I know I have to do the fastest skater is check my edges and make sure there's no nicks or anything like that.
And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
Whether you have locs, natural hair, wear a relaxer, or rock wigs and weaves, thinning edges can be a frustrating issue.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.
Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.
If voters think Donald Trump is rough around the edges, wait until they really start hearing from Chris Christie.
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