Worn Quotes - Page 22

• I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this.
  Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Strong, Tired, Failing

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• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Song, Failure, Pages

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.64, Syracuse University Press

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• KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Scotland, America, Kilts

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.693, Library of America

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• The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Crowns, Tribulation

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• Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

  Horace Walpole

  History, Victory, Bells

  Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.489

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• Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

  Christian Dior

  Light, Jewels, Sweaters

  "Simply brilliant: Cher Dior lights up Paris" by Maria Doulton, The Telegraph, August 16, 2011.

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• Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

  Connie Willis

  Thinking, Elements, Literature

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• I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

  Andy Rooney

  Letters, Soap, Rich

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• Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

  Naomi Ragen

  Book, Old Friends, Pages

  Naomi Ragen (2010). “Jephte's Daughter”, p.147, Macmillan

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• When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

  Niall Williams

  Father, Book, Eye

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• Christmas is a time of little time.
  How we get there is a mystery.
  Racing madly mall-to-mall, we climb
  Into fields of sunlit harmony.
  Shopping, cooking, clearing walks and yards,
  Trimming house and tree while working, too;
  Making phone calls, wrapping, writing cards,
  As all worn out we do what we must do
  So that this day of joy might joy renew.

  Nick Gordon

  Writing, Phones, Shopping

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• What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

  Hans Selye

  Health, Thinking, Medicine

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• This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Tired, League

  "Premier League predictions: Will Chelsea or Man City come out on top in the battle of the title contenders?" by Simon Bird, www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2013.

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• The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Baby, Stars

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• There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

  Mary Leakey

  Science, Arrows, Yield

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• The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

  Albert Camus

  Success, Discipline, Way

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.79, Vintage

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• In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!

  Leigh Page

  Memories, Believe, Science

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• The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

  Alexander Smith

  Life And Love, Flipping A Coin, Needs

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.45, tredition

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• 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 it was I couldn't . . .

  John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

  Taken, Glasses, Steel

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• 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 popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  Life, School, Men

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hope, Grief, Waste

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• When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Phones, Years

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• Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

  Ian Curtis

  Dream, Reality, Forever

  "So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks".

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• 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 number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shoes, Hiking, Numbers

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• 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 animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

  Andy Warhol

  Animal, Leather Pants, Skins

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