Wrung Quotes
34 quotes by 27 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Wrung Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 34 Wrung Quotes, led by these top contributors: