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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. -- Agnes Repplier
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths. -- Mason Cooley
Incompetence is a double-edged banana. -- John Perry Barlow
Fame is very much a double-edged sword. -- Kevin Bacon
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. -- Adrienne Rich
Torture can be a two edged sword. -- Christine Feehan
But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing. -- Michael Scott
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints -- Edith Sitwell
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. -- Calvin Seerveld
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. -- John Dryden
The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword. -- Joyce Meyer
Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. -- Haruki Murakami
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. -- Jane Fonda
...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways. -- Charlie Fletcher
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters. -- Alan Moore
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. -- Margaret Cavendish
Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors. -- Jonathan Frakes
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. -- Henry David Thoreau
You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better. -- Pauline Marois
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us. -- Jason Silva
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy. -- Dan Colen
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. -- Phoebe Snow
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality. -- Vera John-Steiner
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. -- Washington Irving
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness -- Adrienne Rich
I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive. -- Rachel Hunter
because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. -- Jacques Ellul
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. -- Ron Fournier
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. -- Washington Irving
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat. -- Jane Fonda
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. -- Arthur Eddington
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. -- Murray Rothbard
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism. -- Rob Brezsny
Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt. -- Rachel Sklar
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. -- Nick Hornby
Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever. -- Maureen McCormick
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies. -- Najib Razak
But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, â??we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. -- Virginia Woolf
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill. -- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill. -- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Yes?" said Clary, her voiced sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?" "No wonder that cat of his hates everyone. -- Cassandra Clare
I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings. -- Linda Cardellini
The anticipation-speculation that comes with a weekly schedule is a double-edged sword. Because people have more time to talk about things, some crazy ideas get a lot of attention. -- Cary Fukunaga
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will. -- George Eliot
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Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. -- John Steinbeck
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Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger just about threatening to stop a girl's heart. -- Lilith Saintcrow
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins. -- Janet Fitch
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Love may be able to force you into precarious situations, it may lead you into double-edged bonfires and you don't smell the smoke, you only see the temptation of a perfume. -- Laura Gentile
Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow. -- John Drinkwater
Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. -- Carl Hiaasen
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out. -- Martin Gore
No," he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. "They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver." Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice. -- Nalini Singh
Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword. -- Calista Flockhart
Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business -- Niall FitzGerald
Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver. -- Stephen Covey
Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak. -- Charisma Carpenter
It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position -- Efim Geller
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority. -- Ellen Hopkins
As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic. -- Tim Robbins
Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. -- Umera Ahmed
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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