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source: "Chuck Pierce and Keith Miller: 'All Things are Being Sharpened!' AND 'Blaze Miracle Paths Everywhere You Go!'". www.elijahlist.com. May 8, 2010.

topic: Cutting, Knives, Waiting, Machetes, Sharpening

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

- Sheila Ballantyne

source: Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

topic: Skills, Training, Survival, Survival Skills, Freeways

Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

- Cornell Capa

topic: Powerful, Men, Mirrors, Sharpening

Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.

- Scott D. Anthony

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Needs, Facts, Sometimes, Sharpening

I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

- Michael Jackson

topic: Thinking, Skills, Zenith, Best Performance, Sharpening

The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

- Margaret Atwood

topic: War, Thinking, Glasses, Archways, Sharpening

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

- Jiang Zemin

topic: Army, Play, People, Sharpening

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Men, Desire, Doe, Sharpening

I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Determination, Hands, Skills, Sharpening

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

source: Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.216

topic: Spiritual, Fire, Sight, Sharpening

I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

- Gabe Newell

topic: Kevin, Littles, Faces, Sony, Sharpening

Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head.

- Cate Tiernan

topic: Cute, Mom, Dad, Claws, Ferns

I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

- John Green

source: John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

topic: Real, School, Sadness, Swirls, Sharpening

It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Sibling, Fire, Together, Sharpening

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

- Robert Morrison MacIver

topic: Success, Stress, Healthy, Excursions, Sharpening

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

- Diane Johnson

topic: Jobs, Writing, Understanding, Sharpening

There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Educational, Opportunity, Careers, Study Abroad, Cultural Exchange

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.

- Italo Calvino

source: "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". Book by Italo Calvino. Translated by Patrick Creagh, 1996.

topic: Running, Communication, Differences, Written Language, Sharpening

My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.

- Amy Tan

topic: Mother, Eye, Hands, Polaroids, Bright Colors

The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.

- Lu Tong

topic: Loneliness, Book, Inspiration, Sharpening

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

- Jason Bateman

topic: Garden, Play, Tree, Japanese Gardens, Half Way

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