Straws Quotes - Page 7

• Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

  Mary Astell

  Men, Vices, Want

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• Almost every time i saw you, you were with him. But one day, you walked up to the building alone. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and i waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you look pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.' That was the last straw. I prayed you 'd never come to a session, and not with him. I didn't want you to know i was the tutor.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Doors, Guy

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• We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Bricks, Drowning

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yeah,” Nicole said, her straw noisily hitting the bottom of her Gut Buster. “Well, I would have appreciated it if you guys had wrecked a little less stuff. Because my house smelled like smoke for months. And construction on the Tarantinos’ new garage starts at eight on the dot every morning, and it’s still going on, and you know how I get if I don’t have my full ten hours of beauty sleep.” “So that’s what happened to your face,” Cody said. “I was wondering.

  Meg Cabot

  Morning, Sleep, Eight

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

  Eiichiro Oda

  Law, Enemy, Enmity

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• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we had passed out of sight of La Muette. Astonished I cast a glance towards the river. I perceived the confluence of the Oise. And naming the principal bends of the river by the places nearest them, I cried, "Passy, St. Germain, St. Denis, Sevres!"

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Airplane, Fire, Sight

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• Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

  John Vianney

  Prayer, Fire, Light

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• I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

  John Buchan

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1830, e-artnow

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• About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.

  Joshua Slocum

  Loneliness, Fog, Wind

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Blessing, Race

  Samuel Rutherford (1761). “Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen”, p.308

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• A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Real, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Hero, Pregnancy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.137, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

  Alfred Doblin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.

  Kendall Schmidt

  Growing Up, Fans, My Favorite

  "Exclusive Q&A: Big Time Rush". Interview with Gayatri Rajagopalan, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

  Helen Waddell

  Men, Sick, Illness

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

  Lord Dunsany

  Memories, Imagination, Bricks

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• Every makeup artist has a straw somewhere on them, pretty much at all times. They're pros, and it's a lot easier to sip things backstage and not mess with your lipstick that way. You learn fast to always ask for a straw when your makeup is done.

  Kendall Jenner

  Artist, Makeup, Done

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Character, Building Up, Levers

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1848). “Gems from Tupper: Consisting of Extracts from the Following Works: Proverbial Philosophy; Thousand Lines; Twins; Hactenus; An Authr's Mind; Geraldine, and Other Poems; Heart; Crock of Gold; and Probabilities, an Aid to Faith”, p.189

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• I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fate, Water, Swim

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

  Rose Macaulay

  Writing, Thinking, Tables

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Servant

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274

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• A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Enemy, Tools

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.131

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• The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Sacrifice, Men

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