It takes a rough ordsprog

en It takes a rough stone to sharpen the edge

en The stone industry has revived in recent years in ways that nobody could have imagined. As with everything else, China has entered the market of stone, and the price was good. Classical Rome and Chinese stone - that's a first!

en The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
  Michelangelo

en Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
  Beatrix Potter

en A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind
  John Cheever

en I wouldn't call him a swingman ... he could be in the roation by the end of the year. Nothing's etched in stone. We're just doing whatever it takes to win games.

en Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone-and no one minds.

en A pe𝑥y man understands the power of playful teasing, creating a lighthearted and fun dynamic. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration
  William Hazlitt

en You start thinking about it a little bit more. I'm going out recruiting Sunday so that takes a little bit of the edge off.

en The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone.
  Bob Marley

en Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: / Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

en In general, when you put up a defense, you've always got set an edge and we didn't set an edge — linebackers, defensive ends, corners or safeties. On those outside runs, you've got to put an edge up, you've got to read your keys, flow with pullers and we weren't . . . and they exploited it.

en A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit
  Samuel Johnson

en One of the things that spoke to me in hiring these ladies is that their No. 1 priority is to have fun. They want to use the program as a stepping stone to get to the next level of competitive softball. Lori has been there, so she knows what it takes to get there.

en He takes the guesswork out of everything because he prepares so thoroughly. He's always studying the oppositions, the pitchers and players. He's always looking for an edge.


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