Shorn Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
— Edward Abbey
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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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
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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
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
— Laurence Sterne
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.
— Joseph Girzone
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Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
— Stanislaw Lem
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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
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Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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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
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It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.
— Steven Erikson
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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: