Shrouds Quotes
19 quotes by 15 authors
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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and…
— Charles Kingsley
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People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and…
— Arundhati Roy
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There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps…
— Jesse Browner
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God shrouds himself in mystery so He can be found by true seekers.
— Karen Wheaton
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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
— Horace
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I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It…
— Tim Cook
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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
— Alexander Pope
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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she…
— Honore de Balzac
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You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."…
— Charles Dickens
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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that…
— Arundhati Roy
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We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy away from the…
— Eric Ludy
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Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so…
— Mira Grant
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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking…
— Arundhati Roy
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The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very…
— Rick Riordan
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Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
— Arundhati Roy
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Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas…
— Alice Oswald
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Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and…
— Charles Kingsley
Who Wrote These Shrouds Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 19 Shrouds Quotes as follows: