Bare Quotes
613 quotes by 501 authors
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can…
— Hugo Black
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To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems…
— Melissa Etheridge
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit…
— Agnes Smedley
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The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.
— Robert K. Merton
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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence…
— Kenny Smith
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Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity…
— Tove Jansson
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In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
— Dennis Lehane
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Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle…
— Maria Montessori
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Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great…
— G.M.B. Akash
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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall…
— George Will
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Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?
— Charles Spurgeon
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in…
— Aristotle
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But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,…
— James Russell Lowell
Who Wrote These Bare Quotes
501 authors contributed a total of 613 Bare Quotes, led by these top contributors: