Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
So, how do you kill a dragon? (Channon) With a very sharp sword. (Sebastian)
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots. . . it's a beautiful thing.
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath
Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.
Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with. ' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.
YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.