Askew Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to…
— Jason Segel
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as…
— Desmond Tutu
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Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to…
— Nick Gordon
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I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like…
— Keith Carter
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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds,…
— A. A. Gill
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to…
— Andre Gide
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One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as…
— Sam Walter Foss
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Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move…
— Willard Fiske
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Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then…
— Criss Jami
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page…
— Sylvia Plath
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But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And…
— Robert Burns
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She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at…
— Veronica Roth
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There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you…
— Robert Gottlieb
Who Wrote These Askew Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Askew Quotes as follows: