Pluck Quotes
126 quotes by 107 authors
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My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down,…
— Kate Morton
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The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth:…
— William Shakespeare
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When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.
— Paulo Coelho
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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my…
— William Shakespeare
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Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear…
— William Shakespeare
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I have a plan.†He groaned. “I was afraid of that.†“My plans are not terrible.†“Isabelle’s plans are terrible.†He pointed a finger at…
— Cassandra Clare
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The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs,…
— Libba Bray
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I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a…
— Enid Blyton
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Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to…
— Rachel Vincent
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Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
— Christina Rossetti
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure…
— George Eliot
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Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite…
— Ding Ling
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to…
— Hamish Bowles
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Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required…
— John Montgomery Ward
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Focus on eating real, whole, natural foods. As I love to say, if you can pick it, pluck it, milk it, or shoot it, you…
— Suzanne Somers
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It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could…
— Robert Edwards
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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
— Loren Eiseley
Who Wrote These Pluck Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 126 Pluck Quotes, led by these top contributors: