Rags Quotes

171 Rags quotes by 138 unique authors

I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card… — Ivan Turgenev
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For… — Mark Twain
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac
Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him… — Cormac McCarthy
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and… — Anne Lamott
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun… — Leonard Cohen
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of… — Cormac McCarthy
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction… — Terry Pratchett
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. — Jean Rhys
So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first.… — Cassandra Clare
Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. — William Butler Yeats
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange… — Denise Levertov
If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..."… — Frank Beddor
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings… — Shel Silverstein
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a… — Ambrose Bierce
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck
Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another -… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another… — Cormac McCarthy
Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. — Rick Riordan
There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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