#sharp

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #cry #did #distress #enough

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#empty #head #legs #sharp #swollen

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#forward #go #life #march #move

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#gotten #i #i think #loudest #more

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. ↗

— Menander

#mind #sharp #sword #words #wounds

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #between #both #determined #divided

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

— Vance Havner

#dull #eleven #end #many #services

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #crisp #deliver #earth #ever

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#discrimination #dull #good #great #great literature