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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. -- Charles Baudelaire
Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way. -- David R. Mains
Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. -- Texas Bix Bender
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. -- Walter Savage Landor
Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. -- J. L. B. Smith
If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it. -- Fred Phelps
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. -- Soren Kierkegaard
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal? -- Arthur Golden
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness. -- Frederick Lenz
No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise. -- Uell Stanley Andersen
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip. -- D. H. Lawrence
With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web. -- Willow Bay
I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it. -- Jeanne Tripplehorn
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. -- Olive Schreiner
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit. -- Bill Richardson
He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs! -- Adolf Hitler
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearerâ??s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation... -- Desiderius Erasmus
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness. -- Frederick Lenz

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