Withering Quotes

47 quotes by 45 authors

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is,… — Anne Lamott
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom… — Henry Miller
I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply… — Olivia Wilde
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. — Charlotte Bronte
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering... — Richard Yates
But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret… — Emily Maguire
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in… — Maggie Stiefvater
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you… — John Howard Griffin
But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave… — John Flanagan
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though… — Alberto Moravia
Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to… — Terry Pratchett
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine… — William Shakespeare
She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.) — Ned Vizzini
So, let's make a deal: If you do not voice all the withering comments about the weight or uselessness of this jacket that are no… — Eoin Colfer
I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut. — Jim Butcher
This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who… — Gayle Forman
Belatedly, she realized something else. â€œDo you â€¦ have anything?â€ He didnâ€™t seem to have recovered from her last comment. â€œBut do you mean â€”… — Cassandra Clare
A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree… — Alexander MacLaren
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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