Top 26 Quotes About Shabbiness
#1. Be fearless. What the hell, why not. You have nothing to lose except fear, which isn't yours anyway.
Art Hochberg
#2. An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men.
Charles Dickens
#3. Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.
Rami M. Shapiro
#5. I ... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.
Ruskin Bond
#6. A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
Charles Dickens
#7. Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
J.M. Barrie
#9. You're saying you don't want me?"
Aw hell. "No, I'm saying this is a bad idea."
"You're the king of bad ideas," he reminds me. "At least this one ends with both of us feeling good.
Sarina Bowen
#10. A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory
and shame and shabbiness
of what it is to be human.
Carolyn See
#11. In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
Horace Mann
#12. I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
Isabel Allende
#13. I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.
Alfie Allen
#14. Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.
John Cleese
#15. She did not understand grunge, the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#16. To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.
Chris Brogan
#17. Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
E.B. White
#18. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen
#19. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
Margery Williams
#20. When you fold your arms and not do anything but only wait for miracles, you have given God a slap on His face
Sunday Adelaja
#21. I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.
Tippi Hedren
#22. What's the business case for ending life on earth?
Ray Anderson
#23. I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.
Katie Crouch
#24. Also with His Word, we can win people back from Satan!
Sunday Adelaja
#25. There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#26. These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
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