Quotes of Piercing - somelinesforyou

“ There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it. ”

- Sophocles

“ I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is most sharp sauce. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ”

- Robert Parker

“ It was painful. It is painful now. ”

- Colin Powell

“ Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. ”

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

“ President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting. ”

- Unknown

“ A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ The sharp employ the sharp. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. ”

- George Louis Leclerc de Buffon

“ A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. - The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. - King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge. ”

- Paul Goldberger

“ You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. ”

- Donella Meadows

“ I believe it is fair to say most Republicans did not think George W. Bush was motivated to run for the presidency for the primary reason of cutting or controlling spending. But it is also fair to say that they did not think he was Lyndon B. Johnson. And that's what he's turned into. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. ”

- Barbara Hepworth

“ I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be doing the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the facade-piercing interview. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ”

- Henry Ford

“ By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. ”

- Tyne Daly

“ The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them. ”

- Dr. Laurence Buckman

“ Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. ”

- Samuel Daniel

“ The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood. ”

- Buddha
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