Best Ragged Quotes

93 Ragged quotes by 84 unique authors

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows… — Andrew Marr
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing… — Max Lucado
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically… — Brennan Manning
If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you… — Iyanla Vanzant
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold
So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up… — Johnny Cash
There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the… — Robert Benchley
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to… — Jonathan Raban
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging… — Krist Novoselic
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish. — Roger Meddows Taylor
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let… — Charles Churchill
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. — Herman Melville
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended… — Elizabeth Warren
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city… — Walt Whitman
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs… — Victor Hugo
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make. — Eoin Colfer
Thou art a very ragged Wart. — William Shakespeare
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker
Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let… — Betty Smith
And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps… — Jenny Downham
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me... — Laurie Halse Anderson

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