Quotes with razor-edge

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  • Greg Norman I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.
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  • Thornton Wilder I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • A. E. Housman If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sagan If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage - to make it the tool of our survival.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carine Roitfeld If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Haythum R. Khalid If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.
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  • William Carlos Williams It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Anne W. Schaef It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
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  • William Shakespeare Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Moseley My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Carter Burwell New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Robert Browning Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Blair Redford People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.
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  • Arthur Ashe Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Horace Mann Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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