Sword Of Two Edges Quotes & Sayings

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. — Charles Lamb

You can speak. What other animal on the planet can speak? The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is the tool of magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you. One edge is the misuse of the word, which creates a living hell. — Miguel Ruiz

Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors. — Loraine Hutchins

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today. — Kelly Lynch

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it. — Mark Slouka

It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine. — David Schwimmer

I'm sorry I threw up on your dog. And that he ate it. — Erika Price

The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them. — Andrzej Sapkowski

knife in my hand. — Veronica Roth

Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves. — Seth King

The power of the man, with a mind shut down. The strength of the super human. The survival of the species. The deafness of a beast. That's the power of the penis. — Deborah Ainslie

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things. — Edward Snowden

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning. — Eddie Murray

Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier! — Israelmore Ayivor

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato