Stripped Quotes

195 Stripped quotes by 185 unique authors

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and… — Theodore Dalrymple
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces… — Hilda Doolittle
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror… — Karen Armstrong
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to… — Spike Lee
Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away,… — Lionel
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train… — Michelle Huneven
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. — Camille Paglia
I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been… — Joyce Tenneson
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all,… — David Graeber
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will… — Alexander Smith
If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior — Oswald Chambers
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq al-Hakim
I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People… — Joanna Newsom
2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day… — George Scratchley Brown
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. — Ian McShane
So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me… — Barry McGuire
The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing. — Morgan Llywelyn
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to… — Marcus Aurelius
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. — Dave Grohl
I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything… — Richard Armitage
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be… — Bob Dylan
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the… — Bob Dylan
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. — Jim Jarmusch
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at… — Kurt Huber

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