Fashioned Quotes

499 quotes by 432 authors

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want… — Ellen DeGeneres
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed… — Barbara Ehrenreich
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined. — James A. Michener
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll… — Berkeley Breathed
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska
Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I… — Chelsea Handler
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,… — Cormac McCarthy
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a… — E L Konigsburg
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for… — Bob Hope
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? — Robert Graves
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! — Dr. Seuss
and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for… — Bertrand Russell

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