#sharp

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm. ↗

— David Dinkins

#arm #sharpton #twist #you

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#i #mild #mother #quite #sharp

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#love #presence #sharpens #strengthens

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#color #conviction #experience #holds #only

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. ↗

— George H. Mead

#drawn #individual #line #psychology #sharp

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them. ↗

— Olin Miller

#could #limit #number #people #sharply

And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#blister #came #close #consistently #develop

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#dirty #down #father #find #get