Slough Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving… — Charles V. Chapin
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you… — Arthur Miller
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope… — Maria Edgeworth
The name of the Slough was Despond. — John Bunyan
Sometimes snakes canâ€™t slough. They canâ€™t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the… — D. H. Lawrence
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body. — Ramakrishna
The enzyme beta-glucoronidase is necessary to ...'trigger off'.. laetrile.....after the laetrile injection, we injected directly into the tumor...beta-glucoronidase. The result was white slough which encompassed… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled… — Anthony Trollope
Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or… — David Carradine
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They… — Liang Qichao
I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold… — Jessica Brown Findlay
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in… — Derek Jacobi
If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains… — D. H. Lawrence
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger… — Frederick Lenz
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self… — Eric Hoffer
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to… — Eric Hoffer
You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you… — Ricky Gervais
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I… — Susan Orlean
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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