Rags Quotes
171 quotes by 138 authors
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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
— Mark Twain
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My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
— Diana Ross
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I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that…
— Milla Jovovich
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You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when…
— Sinead O'Connor
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My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it
— Jay-Z
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Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
— Victor Hugo
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I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and…
— Gautama Buddha
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Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
— Austin O'Malley
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The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the…
— William Butler Yeats
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Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in…
— Austin O'Malley
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As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in…
— John Bunyan
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A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes.…
— William Christopher Handy
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We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of…
— Loren Eiseley
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Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
— Joseph O'Connor
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The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it…
— Robert Fulton
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It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke…
— Rosario Dawson
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
— Charles A. Reich
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The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
— Stanley Crouch
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