Quotes About Being Sharpened

#1. The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen a knife, you draw the blade of the knife across the sharpening stone. Following your outbreath is like drawing the blade of mind across the breath. Then

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. The majority of men are curtailed "I's"; what was planned by nature as a possibility capable of being sharpened into an I is soon dulled into a third person.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

William Butler Yeats

#5. I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

Lester Cole

#6. Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

C.S. Lewis

#7. It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

Amy Heckerling

#8. You boys ain't got it so bad," he said to his rigid squadmates. "You oughta see how we treat the generals, if you think you's bad off.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Francis Schaeffer

#10. I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.

Judge Reinhold

#11. Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Booker T. Washington

#12. But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Hans Christian Andersen

#13. People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Warren Buffett

#14. The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

Bill Alexander