Best Ragged Quotes
93 Ragged quotes by 84 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
— Roger Meddows Taylor
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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
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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
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
— Herman Melville
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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
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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
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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
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...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
— Eoin Colfer
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Thou art a very ragged Wart.
— William Shakespeare
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
— Dorothy Parker
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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
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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
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I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me...
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Who Wrote These Ragged Quotes
84 authors contributed a total of 93 Ragged Quotes, led by these top contributors: