Calloused Quotes

#1. To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Sam Brownback

#2. Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.

Chila Woychik

#3. Some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls ...

John Geddes

#4. She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.

Rick Riordan

#5. Physically, I'm not tough. I may think tough. I would say I'm kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

Humphrey Bogart

#6. In the Hebrews passage three preventives are listed for a calloused Christian heart. The first is daily exhortation of one another (3:13).

Charles C. Ryrie

#7. I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#8. Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, 'Because I said so," from God in heaven. And I may not ever want to speak to Him again.

Sarah Thebarge

#9. Day grabbed God's hand off his cock and licked the calloused palm from wrist to fingertips before guiding it back to his dick. Holy fuck that was hot.

A.E. Via

#10. Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

Billy Graham

#11. One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

Thomas Sowell

#12. Fuck, babe," Chocolate Eyes said, stepping forward. He grabbed her arm and hauled her to her feet off the tiled floor. "You look like crap ... worse, actually." He wiped her tears with the calloused pad of his thumb. "You want to get out of this pisshole or not?

Cindy Paterson

#13. It was expected that men's hands would be good and calloused by reins and shovels and the hands of other men whose lives they knew by the tough skin of their handshakes.

Wiley Cash

#14. You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

Eliot Ness

#15. Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle.

Hilary Mantel

#16. Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.

Billy Graham

#17. Regret is an uneven hand,
a rough palm at the cheek - tender
and calloused.

Lorna Dee Cervantes

#18. Percy figured they must be on the bottom of his foot - a rough, calloused expanse where only the most disgusting plant life grew. Finally

Rick Riordan

#19. Maybe just as skin on a hand grows together after pain in repetition, a person does too. But I don't want to become a calloused man.

Veronica Roth

#20. He framed her face with his calloused hands and looked down at her. His beautiful blue eyes searched her face and all her fears fled. In his eyes she saw everything she needed. Gentleness, kindness, passion and ... maybe, just maybe a hint of love.

Tamara Hoffa

#21. Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.

E.L. Doctorow

#22. As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

George Amos Dorsey

#23. To be gripped by Foteini's calloused, rustic hand felt like being lovingly embraced by a 1,000 year old olive tree. For the first time since I arrived I felt the outer layer of my foreignness begin to peel away, just a tiny bit.

Marjory McGinn

#24. I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

Richard Paul Evans

#25. When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Ben Carson

#26. Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city

Ilya Kaminsky

#27. You are a child of God and, therefore, deserve to allow the light of God's love to come streaming into your heart.

Catherine Carrigan

#28. Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.

Bobby Sands

#29. Women should be someone and not something.

Mary Cassatt

#30. All women know that bridesmaid dresses are a secret plot if the devil.

Helena S. Paige

#31. You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Anthony Bourdain

#32. Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad's Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.

L.M. Montgomery

#33. She does not acknowledge hatred. A waste of time. Life

Kelly Gardiner

#34. Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal

Arthur W. Pink

#35. Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

Mason Cooley

#36. Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Thomas Sydenham

#37. Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Gloria Allred