Withers Quotes

81 quotes by 71 authors

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. — Colin Greenwood
Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of… — Thomas Chalmers
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves. — James Salter
He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms. — Gordon B. Hinckley
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a… — Abraham Kuyper
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart. — Pearl S. Buck
The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. — Oscar Wilde
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. — Rudolf Nureyev
I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine… — John Fogerty
The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away. — Khalil Gibran
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts. — Samael Aun Weor
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages,… — Reginald Heber
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs… — John Henry Newman
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The state is not abolished, it withers away. — Friedrich Engels
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized… — Stephen Bayley
The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love… — Guru Nanak

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