Girded Quotes

#1. I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

#2. Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

Benedict Of Nursia

#3. Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society - of "pleasure girded about with pain." After that the blackness of unutterable night.

Thomas Hardy

#4. You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Charles Dickens

#5. After eating a protein slab, she donned an envirosuit, then girded on her kinetic pistol with a ten-round magazine.

Tony Peak

#6. True love is humble, thereby is it known;
Girded for service, seeking not its own;
Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Abraham Coles

#7. I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#8. Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

Benjamin

#9. The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile. The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.

Josephin Peladan

#11. In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#12. Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

Jeffrey Fry

#13. One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.

George Orwell

#14. I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

A. Scott Berg

#15. Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass, The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne

A.K. Luthienne

#16. Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway). This

Diane Ackerman

#17. Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.

Sara Nelson