Top 63 Quotes About Sharpness
#1. If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Lao-Tzu
#2. Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.
Horace
#3. The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
#4. The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski
#5. Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.
Ken Done
#6. He has a strange face. It's all sharpness and angles and incredibly fair skin. But then he's got this thatch of black hair that's such a contrast. It's like two cultures had a massive fight over his face and neither won.
Melina Marchetta
#7. Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.
Debasish Mridha
#8. One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#9. [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
Bill Gates
#10. So she's been to college, too. I should have known. That's what we get then," he said nastily, "for educating women. They get all kinds of ridiculous ideas."
"Oh, I don't know," Marian said with a touch of sharpness, "there's some men it doesn't do much good for either.
Margaret Atwood
#11. It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
Flann O'Brien
#13. I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind
indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.
Katherine Anne Porter
#14. Now we are creatures of the darkness
Blessed with eternal love to last!
The knowing dawned on me with sharpness
Enhanced by glimpses of the past.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#15. Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life
its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness
conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
Susan Sontag
#16. My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over me with painful sharpness and deep grief. Now that I had company.
Linda Olsson
#17. Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?"
The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake."
"What book?"
"It's The Shadow Death Lexicon."
"Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.
J.R. Ward
#18. Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
Richard Steele
#20. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.
George Orwell
#21. When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.
Henry Miller
#22. The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.
William Shakespeare
#23. I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
Bryce Courtenay
#24. I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.
Jose Padilha
#25. Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#27. Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.
Lao-Tzu
#28. Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn
#29. Do not wander in the deeps,
Where the Shriker's shadow creeps.
When he rises from beneath,
Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.
Janet Lee Carey
#30. You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people's BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#31. To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.
Tenzin Palmo
#32. There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.
Chogyam Trungpa
#33. I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.
Tom Stoppard
#34. You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
Dee Henderson
#35. Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.
Thomas Wolfe
#36. I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
Horace
#37. Syldor was not a land of oppressive rules, roles, and labels. Here, love and power were open to, for, and between all; woman or man, rich or poor. What mattered was the sharpness of your mind, the speed of your blade, and the heat of your touch.
Natalia Marx
#38. When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.
Tim Hudson
#39. It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it.
Megan Shepherd
#40. Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.
Laozi
#41. Our strength will come not from the sharpness of our spears, but from our willingness to offer others the protection of our shields.
Simon Sinek
#42. Ever seen a bullet-smashed windscreen?
The hole at the center becomes an eye. You see less through it but you gain focus, sharpness. That's how it is -- our wounds become our eyes. Seeing outside becomes seeing inside.
Listen.
Bilal Tanweer
#43. For only when we can outwait the dark will the sharpness of experience recede like a tide to reveal what has survived beneath it all. Often what seems tragic, if looked at long enough, reveals itself as part of a larger transformation.
Mark Nepo
#44. Getting up for sadhana in the morning is a totally selfish act - for personal strength, for personal intuition, for personal sharpness, for personal discipline, and overall for absolute personal prosperity.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#45. Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?
Judith McNaught
#46. Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.
Antoine Rivarol
#47. I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.
June Lockhart
#48. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#50. The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
Kenneth Branagh
#51. A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#52. Grief is like any other kind of pain. No matter how intense or how constant it is, time takes the edge from it. It may not fade, but it loses its sharpness. It becomes the new normal, and eventually steps aside and makes room in the mind for other things.
Joseph R. Lallo
#53. But we frightened him, us girls, with our intensity, the weight of our sadness and the sharpness of our hearts
Lauren DeStefano
#54. I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
Michel De Montaigne
#55. 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. Risk all. Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble. And when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being: your soul will be born. The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are courageous, daring. It blooms only in courage.
Osho
#57. Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#58. Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
Thomas A. Edison
#59. Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.
Laozi
#60. They were a well-mixed bunch of men whose mental sharpness ranged from that of a butter knife to an overripe plum.
Annelie Wendeberg
#61. With all their sharpness and being pointy - their sole purpose was to stab you.
Jessica Sorensen
#62. Real sharpness comes without effort.
Li Mu
#63. I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.
Federico Garcia Lorca
