#sharp

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#back #berlin #black #defence #defensive

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#especially #eye #hunting #knife #never

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. ↗

— James Thurber

#cat #dog #glance #i #i am

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#around #known #lincoln #only #racism

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#lost #otherwise #pleasures #sharpens #small

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose. ↗

— David Spade

#get #got #i #loose #myself

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

#constant #edged #grows #keener #never

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. ↗

— F. E. Smith

#glittering #hearts #offer #prizes #sharp

Age is irrelevant where two people have deep, sincere feelings for each other. ↗

— K.J. Parker

#age