Gnaw Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a…
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange…
— Walter Benjamin
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root…
— Gautama Buddha
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Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate…
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be…
— Shirley MacLaine
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If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If…
— Thomas Brooks
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw…
— Eric Maisel
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The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or…
— H. L. Mencken
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Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
— Charlie Waite
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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.
— Diane Glancy
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The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
— Mark Twain
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And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds…
— Lucretius
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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
— Janet Flanner
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With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided…
— Janine Antoni
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Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
— Charles Fort
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My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
— William Shatner
Who Wrote These Gnaw Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 35 Gnaw Quotes, led by these top contributors: