#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

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#coming #energy #following #how #i

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#love #presence #sharpens #strengthens

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp. ↗

— Robbie Keane

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#ago #authority #budgets #business #cut

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