Best Robes Quotations
169 Robes quotes by 133 unique authors
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Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.
— Guru Gobind Singh
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Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her…
— Ray Harryhausen
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Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
— Miroslav Volf
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The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
— John Galt
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If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with…
— Bill Vaughan
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The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must…
— William Gurnall
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I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.
— Tim McGraw
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
— William Shakespeare
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I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of…
— Clarence Thomas
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For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
— Charles Dickens
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Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.
— Terry Goodkind
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Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just…
— Victor Hugo
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The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient…
— C.S. Lewis
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[about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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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
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Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the…
— Margaret Weis
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For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a…
— Neil Gaiman
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