Shriveled Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so…
— Anandamayi Ma
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With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died
— Mercedes McCambridge
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I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart…
— Amy Poehler
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I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become…
— Oriah Dreamer
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable.…
— Doug Bandow
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I want girls to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and…
— Amy Poehler
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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow…
— Edmund Burke
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain…
— Mark Steyn
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The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
— Anne Lamott
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
— Virginia Woolf
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Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said,…
— Paulette Jiles
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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,…
— Anne Bronte
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Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What…
— Ayn Rand
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It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for…
— Douglas Adams
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
Who Wrote These Shriveled Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 31 Shriveled Quotes, led by these top contributors: