Scoured Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three…
— R. W. Apple
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The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough…
— T. H. Watkins
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops…
— Richard Ford
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Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your…
— James Lileks
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Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.
— John Gould Fletcher
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
— John Ruskin
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
— William Shakespeare
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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
— Mark Helprin
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I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there…
— John Green
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On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd…
— Colin Cotterill
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
— Brad Holland
Who Wrote These Scoured Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Scoured Quotes as follows: