Robes Quotes - Page 8

• Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Waiting, Garments, Gates

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.39, Lotus Press

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each of us can be a leader. We need to remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Perhaps our service is to youth. If so, I caution: 'Youth needs fewer critics and more models.' One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of a car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or a girl.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Girl, Responsibility, Boys

  4 Copy quote

• Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Names, Office, Erotic

  6 Copy quote

• The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.

  Robert Fisk

  Simple, White, Guy

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark.

  Miranda Kerr

  Sexy, Home, Giving

  "Miranda Kerr: ‘I collect underwear from my travels’", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

  Annie E. Clark

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.

  Annie E. Clark

  People, Leader, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

  Charles Lamb

  Rags, Dresses, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.127

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

  Washington Irving

  Rome, Purple, Waste

  Washington Irving (1983). “History, Tales, and Sketches”, p.1011, Library of America

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's nothing terrible in death;
  'Tis but to cast our robes away,
  And sleep at night, without a breath
  To break repose till dawn of day.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Sleep, Night

  13 Copy quote

• Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Power, Missing, Thrones

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.306

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
  A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
  Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
  For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore:
  The other held a globe, which to his will
  Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill:
  Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
  And look'd through nature at a single view:
  A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
  And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
  Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
  And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

  Charles Churchill

  Eye, Views, Hands

  Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, Spring, California

  18 Copy quote

• We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.

  Al Pacino

  Play, Long, People

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

  Daniel Webster

  Judicial, Touched

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “The Works of Daniel Webster ...”, p.201

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

  Lord Byron

  Clouds, Rocks, Long Ago

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Truth, Eye

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

  Kij Johnson

  Thread, Pulling

  4 Copy quote

• The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.

  Opal Whiteley

  Doe, Matter, Problem

  7 Copy quote

• A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Tree, Coronation

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.574, Oxford University Press

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.

  Craig Childs

  Fall, Creativity, Winter

  13 Copy quote

• Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

  10 Copy quote

• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Communication, Space

  13 Copy quote

• Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to
  experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend
  into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate
  enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging
  judge in robes.

  Richard Grossinger

  Play, Judging, Darkness

  Richard Grossinger (2012). “On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes”, p.78, North Atlantic Books

  14 Copy quote

  Show source