Best Sharp Edges Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Inheritance Games

“Do not be a soft, helpless victim in this world. Be sharp. Be dangerous. Do not become a slick, polished version of a human being. Keep your rough edges. Read real books. Books that hurt to read. Listen to music that makes you want to tear your chest open and show the world your beating heart.”

Sharp Edges Real Books The New Sincerity Visceral Reality Radical Authenticity The Grit Revival Anti Algorithm Cultivated Friction Survival Aesthetic The Beating Heart

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Is this a dagger I see before me?' he mumbled. 'Um. No, my lord. It's my handkerchief, you see. You can sort of tell the difference if you look closely. It doesn't have as many sharp edges.”

Shakespeare Discworld Sharp Edges Dagger Handkerchief

Book:Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.”

Law Lying Novel Edges Ambiguity Sharp Edges

Author:Scott Turow

“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.”

People Years Wells Mean Persons Has Beens Made Turns Games Existence Doubt Four Produce University Edges Wander Four Years Questioning Worn Campus Bleak Well Rounded Sharp Edges Questioning Why

Author:Mario Savio

“Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.”

Problem Lying Answers Economic Fields Ethics Ultimate Edges Shade Sociology Exaggeration Economic Problems Sharp Edges

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life.”

Knows Giving Light Speak Doors Giving Up Findings Unity Edges Opening Confusion Contention Sharp Edges

Author:Laozi

“You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.”

Ifs Feels Enough Turns Saws Comfort Edges Corners Sharp Edges

Author:Martha Grimes

“The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.”

World Moments Stories Joy Our Lives Shapes Edges Spots All Time Intimate Gaps Knives Blank Fragments Unending Blackouts Sharp Edges

Author:Alex Lemon

“Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.”

Leadership Vision Edges Inspiring Leader Sharp Edges Rough Edges

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.”

Approach My Friends And Love Edges Relax Nerves Companionship Tense Razors Sharp Edges

Author:Roberto Bolano

“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”

Past Cities Weak Edges Tiny Unimportant Glitter Reminding Sharp Edges

Author:Joe Meno

“Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.”

Seems Might Edges Carrie Poke Sharp Edges

Book:Wake

Source: Wake

“It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.”

Eye Breaths Filled Edges Noses His Eyes Necks Fur Deep Breath Soaking Timbre Sharp Edges

Author:Kathi Appelt

“My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!”

Edges Tongue Knives Mistress Knights Sharp Edges

Book:Protector of the Small Quartet

Source: Protector of the Small Quartet

“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.”

World Children Night Universe Stars Darkness Sky Possibility Color Listening Sitting Bigger Edges Enjoyed Realms Sunset Twilight Yards Harsh Cricket Frogs Sharp Edges Edge Of The World

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.”

Ifs Knows Stills Romance Picks Lonely Edges Careful Ruins Enjoyed Now And Then Sharp Edges

Book:The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

“I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.”

Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED

“Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million sensations, all of them hot, all of them rich, all of them straddling the razor-sharp edge of pain, ripped through his loins like a flash fire and stripped him of everything but consciousness. "Tuyo. Todo que tengo es tuyo." Yours. Everything I have is yours.”

Heart Soul Pain Consciousness Millions Rich Fire Son My Heart Hot Edges My Soul Generous Breasts Sensations Flash Curves Ripped Razors Sharp Edges

Author:Cindy Gerard

“Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.”

Want Said Hurt Absolutes Edges Bones Bags Sincerity Sharp Edges Bedding

Book:Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.”

Compassion Trade Edges Sharp Edges

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.”

Humans Modern Mountain Edges Meat Village Ancestor Survived Offspring Sharp Edges

Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.”

Memories Surprise Edges I've Learned Sharp Edges

Author:Pittacus Lore

“And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age”

Knows Has Beens Ends Hands Age Form Lying Names Silence Destiny Path Our Lives Thirds Edges Chains Queens Dragons Makers Prophecy Commentary Guise Sharp Edges

Book:The Dragon Reborn: Book 3 of the Wheel of Time

Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book 3 of the Wheel of Time

“It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.”

Men Years Firsts Long Character Faces Flower Personality Spring First Time Sight Property Edges Impression Fountain Mystic Strangeness Sharp Edges

Book:The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories

Source: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories

“Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.”

Fall Poverty Virtue Edges Sharp Edges

Author:Eugene Sue

“Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.”

Men Feels Mind Believe Use Used Fighting Enemy Teach Alive Fool Good Things Edges Every Man Damn Believe In Me Boast Caution No Fear Fearlessness Sharp Edges

Author:Joe Abercrombie

“Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.”

Hurt Principles Cutting Drama Edges Sharp Edges

Author:Choi Woo-seok

“In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.”

People Humans Kind Soul Use Bigs Earth Suffering Rocks Edges Factories Human Soul Polish Erosion Kind People Sharp Edges

Author:Chuck Palahniuk