Quotes About Onion Layers

#1. I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#2. Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

Myles Munroe

#3. Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Derrick Jensen

#4. Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

Richard Eder

#5. By the time I began college, anxiety about hell had disappeared - not because I was confident that I was "saved," but because the whole package had become sufficiently uncertain that I didn't worry about it.

Marcus J. Borg

#6. I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

Chuck Close

#7. Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

James Russell Lowell

#8. The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

Harry Lennix

#9. It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Billy West

#10. We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

T. S. Eliot

#11. The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

#12. This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion ... You're a natural-born onion peeler
the best that ever was.

John Verdon

#13. I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again ... I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

Billy Graham

#14. Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

Douglas Alexander

#15. When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Robert D Bullard

#16. Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

Luke Taylor

#17. He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

Ray Bradbury

#18. Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Warren G. Bennis

#19. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Steve Jobs

#20. Listen to the voices.

William Faulkner

#21. He picks me up and carries me to bed, then eases up to spoon behind me, his arms around my waist. I sigh, lost in the pleasure of being so well attended to.

J. Kenner

#22. Democracy is a universal value

Amartya Sen

#23. We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

Anne Frank

#25. The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Sometimes life has its way with you. It peels back the layers of your existence like the skin of an onion until the real you glows underneath, raw and painful to the touch. It's in those moments, in that hour, you look to those that give you strength - for me,

Addison Moore

#28. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.

Hanya Yanagihara

#29. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

Carrie Vaughn

#30. Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Dennis Rodman

#31. It's my personal onion theory. See, it's like we've all got layers on layers, going deep inside, to layer ten, that place where we're spiritual and private. But we don't show those deep layers.

Dandi Daley Mackall