Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

Maxim 20: If youâ€™re not willing to shell your own position, youâ€™re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the… — Rumi
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without… — Haruki Murakami
We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We… — Erich Maria Remarque
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with… — Christina Rossetti
In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would… — Nizar Qabbani
And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick… — Suzanne Collins
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… — Douglas Hofstadter
Or at school you might have been prodded to come â€œout of your shellâ€â€”that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry… — Susan Cain
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too… — Milan Kundera
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside… — Joe Dunthorne
The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think.… — R.L. LaFevers
He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game — Ridley Pearson
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have… — Neil Gaiman
In school, they would tell you that life wouldnâ€™t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it… — Libba Bray
Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is… — Charles R. Swindoll
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier… — Lew Wallace
Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that. — Taylor Swift
I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it… — Marya Hornbacher
I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as… — Lucy Christopher

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