Quotes About Astringent

#1. How can you get your finger on it, feel that life beating? It was more a torment than a comfort to think about this, because I couldn't get hold of it at all. I

Alice Munro

#2. The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes
Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
Of machine within machine within machine.

Wallace Stevens

#3. If you don't intend having a compromise, you don't negotiate at all.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in. But

Gustave Flaubert

#5. He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent.

Maggie Shipstead

#6. When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Anton Chekhov

#7. Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Adolf Hitler

#9. Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void

Ryan Holiday

#11. Her observation skills were astringent enough to qualify as an ingredient for aftershave.

Helen Brown

#12. Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.

Chuck Todd

#13. Love is a vision, a firefly that majestically glows in the night for some time; then, it winks at you and swiftly disappears.

Vinko Vrbanic

#14. And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.

William S. Burroughs

#15. I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#16. To clever plans,' said Kell, toasting his brother. 'And dashing princes.'
'To masked magicians,' said Rhy, swiping the wine.
'To mad ideas.'
'To the Essen Tasch.'
'Wouldn't it be amazing,' murmured Rhy later, when the bottle was empty, 'if we got away with it?

V.E Schwab

#17. She put down her porridge bowl and tried the tea. It was, somehow, worse than she'd expected: not just bitter, but so astringent that it curdled her tongue. It woke her up, though, and that was the point.

Liane Merciel

#18. Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Michael Jordan