Top 100 Haggard Look Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Haggard Look

#1. Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

Richard Yates

#2. And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Merle Haggard

#3. Ged stood sick and haggard. He said at last, "Better I had died." "Who are you to judge that, you for whom Nemmerle gave his life? - You are safe here. You will live here, and go on with your training. They tell me you were clever. Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

Aaron Watson

#5. The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us
a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

Ted Haggard

#6. 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Sue Townsend

#7. Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like ... now!

Merle Haggard

#8. A sharp spear needs no polish.

H. Rider Haggard

#9. We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

Merle Haggard

#10. Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

H. Rider Haggard

#11. For women bring trouble as surely as night follows day ...

H. Rider Haggard

#12. No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Merle Haggard

#13. Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.

Ted Haggard

#14. And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

H. Rider Haggard

#15. The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

Ted Haggard

#16. Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

Merle Haggard

#17. The friendly giant of my childhood, the wise, gentle god who always knew exactly what to do, now lies pale and haggard in a hospital bed with a dizzying array of tubes and wires and beeping machines all around him.

Kendall Ryan

#18. Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#19. I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.

Ted Haggard

#20. Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Merle Haggard

#21. To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

Merle Haggard

#22. 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Merle Haggard

#23. am that Messenger whom men from the beginning have called Kepher," he said. "I am the Dweller in the wilderness whom your fathers knew, and your sons shall know. I am he who seeks for charity and pays it back in

H. Rider Haggard

#24. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and overweight our feeble reason till it fell, and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.

H. Rider Haggard

#25. At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

Merle Haggard

#26. And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Merle Haggard

#27. There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

Merle Haggard

#28. It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Merle Haggard

#29. Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Amy Jarecki

#30. Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

H. Rider Haggard

#31. And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

H. Rider Haggard

#32. In the morning he stepped from his tent looking haggard, fearful and guilt-ridden, an eaten shell of a human building rocking perilously on the brink of collapse.

Joseph Heller

#33. Then there came a vision to me, a vision that was sent in answer to my prayer, or, perchance, it was a madness born of my sorrows.

H. Rider Haggard

#34. Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.

H. Rider Haggard

#35. She was a natural in being careless, haggard, even dirty. that made her look adventurous, flirtatious and even promiscuous. though deep inside her pure virginity was intact and unknowingly she ended glowing under tender virginity that she possessed.

Apurva Sharma

#36. 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

Merle Haggard

#37. Likewise the boy who was dressed to the nines in a muddy but finely tailored suit and stove-in top hat, his face drawn and haggard from lack of sleep, for he hadn't allowed himself any in days, so afraid was he of his dreams.

Ransom Riggs

#38. My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Merle Haggard

#39. On the haggard face of every man among these prisoners, the same expression sat. I know not what to liken it to. It had something of that strained attention which we see upon the faces of the blind and deaf, mingled with a kind of horror, as though they had all been secretly terrified.

Charles Dickens

#40. A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

Jack Valenti

#41. Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

Merle Haggard

#42. A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age.

Ted Haggard

#43. Vengeance is an arrow that in falling oft pierces him who shot it

H. Rider Haggard

#44. I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

Tanya Tucker

#45. Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

George Canning

#46. For surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to chew it. (Ayesha)

H. Rider Haggard

#47. There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

H. Rider Haggard

#48. Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.

H. Rider Haggard

#49. The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because it so often is terrible. He who would tamper with the vast and secret forces that animate the world may well fall a victim to them.

H. Rider Haggard

#50. My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!

Loudon Wainwright III

#51. Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

H. Rider Haggard

#52. If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

Merle Haggard

#53. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

Wilbur Smith

#54. I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.

Stephen Colbert

#55. Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

H. Rider Haggard

#56. It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

H. Rider Haggard

#57. It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made and say the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

George Eliot

#58. Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

Merle Haggard

#59. Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

H. Rider Haggard

#60. She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

Hunter S. Thompson

#61. Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

Merle Haggard

#62. O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

Hannah More

#63. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time.

Dolly Parton

#64. When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

Merle Haggard

#65. You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in.

Richard Dawkins

#66. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux

Cody Johnson

#67. The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.

John D. Voelker

#68. The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

H. Rider Haggard

#69. I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

Merle Haggard

#70. I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

Merle Haggard

#71. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

#72. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

H. Rider Haggard

#73. When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.

H. Rider Haggard

#74. Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one.

H. Rider Haggard

#75. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#76. When we love most, and love happily, then we are at our topmost bent, and soar further above the earth than anything else can carry us.

H. Rider Haggard

#77. Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

Merle Haggard

#78. I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

Merle Haggard

#79. Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

H. Rider Haggard

#80. They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

Merle Haggard

#81. Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

H. Rider Haggard

#82. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light, - sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#83. I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco - long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness. I stumbled around a few blocks. Weird bums (Mission and Third) asked me for dimes in the dawn.

Jack Kerouac

#84. Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.

H. Rider Haggard

#85. It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

Trisha Yearwood

#86. How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

H. Rider Haggard

#87. What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

H. Rider Haggard

#88. Thus the husband is buried at Memphis and the wife in Koptos, yet the Ka of the wife goes to live in her husband's tomb

H. Rider Haggard

#89. A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish.

H. Rider Haggard

#90. In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available ... in America right now.

Merle Haggard

#91. And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Warren Zevon

#92. Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Merle Haggard

#93. I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

Ted Haggard

#94. We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

H. Rider Haggard

#95. We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

H. Rider Haggard