Gnawing Quotes

58 quotes by 56 authors

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. — Edmund Burke
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. — William J. Clinton
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for… — David Foster
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. â€¦ A gnawing burns inside â€¦ to make something of myself… — Minor White
The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be… — D. H. Lawrence
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down,… — Ally Condie
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign… — H. L. Mencken
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing… — Richard Russo
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputateâ€“â€“ then spread, lift up, fly. — Aberjhani
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the… — Ruth Reichl
Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats… — Robert South
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation,… — John Donne
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a… — Lawrence Kushner
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life… — Peter Ho Davies
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your… — Sarah Hall
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means… — David Deida
You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have… — Napoleon Hill
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that… — Desmond Tutu

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