Best Garments Wisdom
226 Garments quotes by 182 unique authors
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Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no…
— Roland Barthes
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of…
— Louise Erdrich
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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youth is a marvelous garment
— Iris Murdoch
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How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double…
— Og Mandino
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Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could…
— Dean Koontz
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The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats…
— William Shakespeare
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We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own…
— George MacDonald
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That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan.…
— Michael Chabon
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Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the…
— Jack Vance
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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the…
— Ray Bradbury
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But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall…
— Khalil Gibran
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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs,…
— Robin Hobb
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For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf…
— Anne Fortier
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He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned... ...But…
— Julia Quinn
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He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that…
— Kate Chopin
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Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names…
— Tariq Ramadan
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It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
— Khalil Gibran
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You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by…
— Larry McMurtry
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The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish…
— Victoria Alexander
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In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
— Khalil Gibran
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Would you like to assist me with my choice of underwear as well?” My sarcasm whistled right over his head. “I would be delighted. While…
— Ilona Andrews
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