Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. — Saadi
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare
I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That… — Alexander Smith
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton
In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you… — Henry Moore
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. — John Ruskin
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! — Gaston Bachelard
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like… — Sathya Sai Baba
We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before. — John F. Kerry
There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift… — Emily Carr
The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper… — Steven Hall
A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor… — Leslie Ludy
I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE… — Arthur Gordon Webster
To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is… — Bruce Lee
Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet. — Amy Dickinson
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,… — Dorothy Parker
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help. — Tom Duff
It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was… — Tarek Saab

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