Ragged Quotes

93 quotes by 85 authors

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you.… — Aaliyah
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. — William Carlos Williams
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon… — Henry David Thoreau
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the… — Jack Kerouac
I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was… — Dolly Parton
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged… — Victoria Woodhull
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when… — Peggy Noonan
Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. — Scott Joplin
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out… — Mother Jones
Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe… — Lauren Slater
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes… — Cornel West
I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?"… — Stephanie Perkins
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the… — Jamsetji Tata
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! — Alexander Blok
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is… — Edwin Percy Whipple
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why,… — David Hare
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe… — Chanakya
No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass… — Rod McKuen

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