Wrung Quotes

34 quotes by 27 authors

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few… — Smedley Butler
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it… — Rebecca Harding Davis
When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet,… — Winston Churchill
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes… — Randall Jarrell
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used… — Theodore Sturgeon
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you… — Robert Hughes
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it… — C.S. Lewis
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All… — Marie Corelli
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the… — Karl Marx
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive… — Dorothy Gilman
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… — C.S. Lewis
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May… — Charlotte Bronte
Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed… — Lorrie Moore
I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can. — Libba Bray
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have-… — Virginia Woolf
He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they… — Thornton Wilder
Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you… — Cassandra Clare

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