Festered Quotes

#1. However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.

Truman Capote

#2. But nerves always festered in the stillness of waiting. Left at idle, the mind could make a coward of even the bravest man.

D.J. Molles

#3. Secrets...were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk.

Harlan Coben

#4. The flies festered over the bodies, in some way aware that the war had ended and determined to hoard every morsel of flesh for the coming famine of the peace.

J.G. Ballard

#5. In the mind that is once truly disciplined and purged, thou canst not find anything, either foul or impure, or as it were festered: nothing that is either servile, or affected: no partial tie; no malicious averseness; nothing obnoxious; nothing concealed.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.

William Shakespeare

#7. my giving up too easily on Kim festered for

Tim Holsten

#8. When you had no one to vent to, everything stayed inside and festered like old meat in a hot fridge.

Dia Reeves

#9. Something blackens your heart, something deep and bitter. It has festered inside you for years, nurtured and encouraged. I've never felt anything like it.

Marie Lu

#10. BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.

Leonard Cohen

#11. I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.

Meghna Pant

#12. So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land

Richard Llewellyn

#13. While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

John Podhoretz

#14. Monstrous shiny black beetles the size of goats unfurled their wings, writhed and festered at the very top of the sharp rock formation.

Paul Ikin

#15. As the days went by, my frustration festered like an outhouse during a Jamaican summer.

Andrew Cormier

#16. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.

Zak Ebrahim

#17. Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

John Piper

#18. Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Simon McBurney

#19. All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Jodi Picoult

#20. I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#21. I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

Natasha Poly

#22. Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.

Ally Carter

#23. I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

Wanda Sykes

#24. I'm sure that if [Walter] could still talk to the living, he would tell us that the simplest things in life can be treasures, and there are no physical or metaphysical limitations on how much we can love-both in this life and beyond.

Amelia Cotter

#25. I think around the league, I'm getting more respect. And that's great.

Reggie Lewis

#26. You want my respect? Make me give it to you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#27. It takes more than balls to be a woman. It takes ovaries.

Solange Nicole

#28. If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.

Steve Maraboli