Whetstones Quotes

#1. Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Stephen King

#2. Can you believe it? Here's a 15-year-old girl pinching pennies to buy strainers and whetstones and tempura pots when all the girls in school are getting huge allowances and buying beautiful dresses and shoes. Don't you feel sorry for me?

Haruki Murakami

#3. Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

Isocrates

#4. Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#5. Whatever have you been feeding her?"
"Fire and whetstones," said Yarvi, smiling.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. Decision. On bad days, Eli considered Wolfe his personal Javert - doggedly,

Nora Roberts

#7. I will baptise her," he said. "You have walked a long way for something you believe in. In our day that is rare. People seldom walk long distances for their faith. That's why the world looks the way it does.

Henning Mankell

#8. I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don't expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.

Anonymous

#9. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun

Marieke Nijkamp

#11. I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry ... just make me feel alive.

Joey Lauren Adams

#12. I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.

Roustam Tariko

#13. For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Gerry Adams

#14. The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

Donald Sutherland

#15. I eat "NOs" for breakfast.

Jeff Henderson

#16. Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter;

Scott Jonathan Nixon

#17. For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog.

Ray Bradbury

#18. When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic