Shorn Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. — Nicolas Chamfort
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the… — Nick Hornby
I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a… — Rae Spoon
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. — Laurence Sterne
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than… — Robert S. Johnson
Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or… — Charlie Chaplin
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals"… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism. — Joseph Girzone
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide. — Stanislaw Lem
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no… — Jane Yolen
Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. — Cormac McCarthy
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. — Miguel de Cervantes
Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep! — Anton Szandor LaVey
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but… — Toni Morrison
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. — Steven Erikson
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. — Will Self

Who Wrote These Shorn Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Shorn Quotes as follows: