Bootless Quotes

#1. The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

William Shakespeare

#2. There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

Iris Murdoch

#3. The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

William Shakespeare

#4. What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?

Solange Nicole

#5. It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Nature wasn't for us to rise above. It was for us to sink into; to sleep upon and go bootless, and in silent protest to walk the finest rugs and fanciest tile and leave our naked, muddy footprints as the signatures of new beginnings.

Kim Heacox

#7. "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

William Wordsworth

#8. Regrets ... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

Andrew Ashling

#9. It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

Helen Mirren

#11. to tell people to stop practicing their faith was imperialism in nineties clothing, a colonial hangover bordering on racism. Instead, we were embraced as a new generation of anti-colonial politicized youth. Curiously,

Maajid Nawaz

#12. Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others. -Carrie.

Candace Bushnell

#13. What is it?
Nothing. I had a bad dream.
What did you dream about?
Nothing.
Are you okay?
No.
He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.
I was crying. But you didnt wake up.
I'm sorry. I was just so tired.
I meant in the dream.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Evan Davis

#16. Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Nicolas Malebranche

#17. Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

Darrelle Revis

#18. Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#19. I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

Warren Buffett

#20. Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

Jodi Picoult

#21. Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

Donald S. Whitney

#22. Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

Megan Whalen Turner