One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
The amazing thing about working in social media and technology is that you can get to know the sharpest thinkers from around the world without having to spend hours on planes!
The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I just work hard.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.
I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw.
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm pretty!
They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.
I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.
Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.
I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and lead us back into the silent cave of our own Heart.
I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.
I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.
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