Worn Quotes - Page 27

• How beautiful it is for a man to die
  Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
  Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
  To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Death, Wall

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868). “The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous”, p.110

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature, they say, doth dote,
  And cannot make a man
  Save on some worn-out plan
  Repeating us by rote:
  For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
  And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
  Of the unexhausted West,
  With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Hero, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
  [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Sensual, Age

  16 Copy quote

• The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
  [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

  Ovid

  Iron, Use, Action

  4 Copy quote

• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

  Jilly Cooper

  Girl, People, Choices

  14 Copy quote

• Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Generations, Messages

  Suze Orman (2006). “Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work”, p.8, Crown Business

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

  Belva Plain

  Sorrow, Coats, Worn Out

  4 Copy quote

• I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

  Edward VII

  Fashion, Morning, Views

  To Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat, in Sir Philip Magnus 'Edward VII' (1964) ch. 19

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

  A. C. Bradley

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra.

  Andrew McCutchen

  Running, Home, Winning

  9 Copy quote

• White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

  Greg Proops

  Ice Cream, Two, White

  16 Copy quote

• Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Self, Support

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.233, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

  James Dale Davidson

  Political, Soul, Liberty

  "Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they had at the time, just trying not to starve to death. It's the kind of suit that is worn in the rain and shrinks on the body and becomes a second skin, which is different than someone who willfully dropped out.

  Autumn de Wilde

  Rain, Men, Skins

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident.

  Sophie Cookson

  Sexy, Suits, Feels

  Source: wwd.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

  Chuck Grassley

  Past, Judging, Honor

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Judging, Decision, Choices

  9 Copy quote

• I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Country, New York, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Broken, Support, Suffering

  12 Copy quote
• 

  I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Stars, Men

  11 Copy quote

• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

  Helena Christensen

  High Heels, Born, Stiletto Heels

  46 Copy quote

• You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Believe, Heart

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

  275 Copy quote

  Show source

• And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Life, Mistake, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 22, 2013

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.2, 谷月社

  5 Copy quote

  Show source