Sharp End Quotes

#1. Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end.

Martin Amis

#2. The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

Tom Stoppard

#3. All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

Prince Charles

#4. Superstition though does tend to have a sharp end, and I didn't want to find myself impaled on it.

Mark Lawrence

#5. THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a

Diana Gabaldon

#6. But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." - The Last Gift

Carla Acheson

#7. There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia

Neal Shusterman

#8. Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside ... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

Chiang Kai-shek

#9. Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.

Frederick Lenz

#10. But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#11. I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt at the end, the way you might lean into a heavy wind that almost winds up supporting you after a while.

Mary Karr

#12. I won't be your pawn," I growled.
Puck's lips formed a thin, knowing grin. "In the end, you'll still serve the Fae.

Jamie Wyman

#13. You can't picture NOTHING, because as soon as you do, it's SOMETHING.

Cynthia C. DeFelice

#14. The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

Helen Clark

#15. Focus less on whether or not you win in the end. You still have to be sharp; that's why you prepare well. But once you've prepared, you need to calm down. And you can. You know why? Because it really doesn't matter that much.

David Jensen

#16. When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

Michael Scott

#17. Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

#18. I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

Janisse Ray

#19. [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

Viola Davis

#20. The time was 7:40 A.M. I reached for the phone. "Do you have your axe?" came the voice on the other end. It was Mad Dog. "Yes." "Is your axe sharp?" "No, but I can sharpen it while you're driving here." "How about your knife?" "Got it." "Everything needs to be nice and sharp.

Neil Strauss

#21. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. Craster sprawls in his loft even now, stinking of wine and lost to sense. On his board below lies a sharp new axe. Were it me, I'd name it Answered Prayer' and make an end.

George R R Martin

#22. You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

Jonathan Franzen

#23. He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#24. I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.

Brad Thor

#25. At the end of the street the sharp white needle of the church's steeple poked into the sky as if heaven were a big balloon that needed to be popped.

Wendy Wunder

#26. Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.

Steven Redhead

#27. [W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Richard Baxter

#28. I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#29. Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Vance Havner

#30. Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Charles Bukowski

#31. It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Bryce Courtenay

#32. Mentally, many of the residents are still, as they say, sharp like a tack, but some are now more like the other end of the tack, having been hit with the hammer of life much too often. You know, missing a few candles from their menorah.

Mark Reutlinger

#33. Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.

Yasmin Ahmad

#34. It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity.

Yoshida Kenko

#35. How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?

Susan Scott

#36. He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

Robert M. Hensel

#37. For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell

Justin Cronin

#38. Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

John Sloan

#39. A tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom.

Emily St. John Mandel

#40. Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

Robert Browning

#41. Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

Frances Hardinge

#42. I stand by my record. I did some sharp things to get things right - too harsh - but a lot was at stake. But at the end of the day, what have I got? Just a successful Singapore.

Mr. Lee

#43. Anger was sharp edged and clear. Grief was messy, blurry.
But in the end both left you hollowed out inside.

Sarah Ockler

#44. Those who have read my stories already, are the ones who were meant to read them.

Randal Licato