Wraps Quotes

• God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

  Jim Butcher

  Good Life, Exercise, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.

  Anne Hathaway

  Hate, Mean, College

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Signals, Insulation

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• I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forever, Today

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• Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

  Umberto Eco

  Race, Coward, Principles

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• Almost every day I wrap up my two-hour live broadcast and I say to myself as I'm driving home, 'I wish I would've done this' or 'We really should have gone live longer with this segment.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Home, Should Have, Two

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• Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

  Patti Callahan Henry

  Grief, People

  Patti Callahan Henry (2007). “Between The Tides”, p.173, Penguin

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• Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

  Sterling W Sill

  Home, Thinking, Chinese

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• Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

  E. Lockhart

  Powerful, People, Secret

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.44, Hot Key Books

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• Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.

  Charles Bates

  Philosophy, Exercise, Realization

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• Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

  George Takei

  Movie, Play, Three

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• The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Space, Imagination

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• Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To "sleep in Christ," like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Character

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• A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

  Rick Riordan

  Imagination, Reader

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• Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Purpose, Literature, Conscious

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  Salma Hayek

  Movie, Book, Home

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• I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

  Rainn Wilson

  Children, Grief, Eight

  "Rainn Wilson Talks The End Of 'The Office,' Previews OWN 'SoulPancake' Special And Calls For Gun Control After Newtown Shooting". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

  Florence Welch

  Running, Creating, Personality

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• When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

  Tina Fey

  School, Phones, Cells

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• With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

  Beth Ditto

  Eye, Curves, Lovely

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• If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

  Sandra Bullock

  Giving, Film, Difficult

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• When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

  Henry Rollins

  Movie, Party, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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