Worn Quotes

525 quotes by 439 authors

Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of… — Robert Macfarlane
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing â€” it is a… — Jean-Francois Cope
Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I… — Charles Studd
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear… — Andy Warhol
On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are… — Thomas S. Monson
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever. — Ian Curtis
We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the… — Robert Bly
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate… — John Dryden
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each… — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As… — Unknown Author
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung. — Charles Lamb
It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much. — Natalie Babbitt
There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out. — Unknown Author
Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been. — Trent Reznor
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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