Top 100 Quotes About Shedding
#1. Things hurt.. accepted. Shedding tears.. accepted. Sadness.. accepted.. But to quit and make your work suffer.. not at all accepted..
Himmilicious
#2. I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
Dave Chappelle
#3. But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
Logan Pearsall Smith
#4. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.
Tim O'Brien
#5. Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.
Virginia Woolf
#6. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
Robertson Davies
#7. What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.
Sylvia Thompson
#8. Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next.
T. S. Eliot
#9. The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Lord Byron
#10. A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.
Ellen G. White
#11. All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.
John A. Ashley
#12. Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.
Adrienne Rich
#13. You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice.
Timothy Ferriss
#14. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. The whisper of the dusk
is night shedding its husk.
Dean Koontz
#16. And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.
Aeschylus
#17. Music, she thought, perhaps could be a continuing process, like life, a shedding of one skin as fast as another grew. Instead every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.
Winston Graham
#19. The sky was filled with fat stars, swollen from the long night. The moon had risen briefly and then slipped out of sight. It was one of those sad moons that no one looks at or pays attention to. It had hung there a while, misshapen, not shedding any light, and then gone to hide behind the hills.
Juan Rulfo
#20. I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
Rip Torn
#21. Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
Jean Nidetch
#22. When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.
Clarice Lispector
#23. The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
Arthur Golden
#24. Maybe we're all shedding our fear and regret and hope everywhere we go, and we're catching up traces of people we've never met. Maybe it's everywhere.
Scott Cawthon
#25. To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.
Sun Tzu
#26. By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales.
Celeste Ng
#27. The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
Camille Paglia
#28. Robotic cats, two for the price of one, today only! No shedding, just purring!
Marissa Meyer
#29. The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield
#30. Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.
Lin Yutang
#31. To this day, my spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. I do not fear it, I court it. When I am away, I anticipate my return, needing to touch stone, rock, water, the trunks of trees, the sway of grasses, the barbs of a feather, the fur left behind by a shedding bison.
Terry Tempest Williams
#32. What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
Susan Orlean
#33. I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.
Anna Akana
#34. we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
Irvine Welsh
#35. A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.
Noah Fregger
#36. After shedding only as much clothing as required, I climbed onto his lap and rode him like I was running a race and the finish line was in sight.
Trina M. Lee
#37. His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops:
George Orwell
#38. I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on.
-Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine
Oliver Harris
#39. Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything ... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.
Arthur Lismer
#40. It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.
David Warner
#42. A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#43. Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings - the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.
Simon Winchester
#45. A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars.
James Joyce
#46. Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.
D.H. Lawrence
#47. Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation.
Billy Graham
#48. I watched her cry
drown herself in a flood of tears. It is a great thing to be in the presence of a rational being who cries. A weak, broken creature shedding tears makes the same impression as an all-powerful god to whom one prays. In her weakness and defeat Amy was above human power.
Henri Barbusse
#49. Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
Bob Dylan
#50. Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
George Mikes
#51. The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
St. Jerome
#52. The success of a business hinges entirely on its ability to generate cash. If a business cannot generate enough cash to grow, or at least sustain its operations, it has to save its behind by borrowing money, selling more stock, or shedding assets - none of which are good for investors.
Joel Ponzio
#53. 2.27 THE ULTIMATE
With compassion and renunciation walking,
With wants and desires ever shedding,
With love within one's heart flowing,
Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.
[158] - 2
Munindra Misra
#54. My biggest beauty tip would be exfoliation, exfoliation, exfoliation! After a lifetime of almost no breakouts, I started having some pretty embarrassing ones and learned that if you don't exfoliate, your skin has a hard time shedding the old skin and therefore clogs your pores and causes zits.
Amanda Crew
#55. Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead." It was a gift to the shadow world - tears. They would be sacred beyond a doubt.
Frank Herbert
#56. Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.
Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.
And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.
You Jin
#57. On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.
William Kunstler
#58. Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.
Kim Harrison
#59. I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.
David Beckham
#60. We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.
Michelle Moran
#61. Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
Kevin Kelly
#62. 3Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Anonymous
#63. I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.
Saladin
#64. Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.
Arthur Chu
#65. Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#66. I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#67. The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.
Erich Fromm
#68. The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own.
Michael Jones
#69. Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls ... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.
Melanie Brown
#70. I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Liya Kebede
#71. Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
Jean De La Bruyere
#72. He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#73. I ran up the stairs, shedding pieces of my suit as I went, determined for a shower, resolute in washing away what I'd just done, who I really was but I was certain there was nothing that could cleanse me, to launder my poisoned blood. This was who I was. Hopeless personified.
Fisher Amelie
#74. Animals lived out there, but fort surveyors declared that there were no predators. The shades had gotten those long ago, drawn by the shedding of blood.
Brandon Sanderson
#75. Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.
Shari Arison
#76. An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave.
Barbara Kingsolver
#78. When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.
Tony Evans
#79. [ ... ] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
Jan Kochanowski
#80. And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
Barry McGuire
#81. We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights.
Oscar Arias
#82. I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we're just shedding light on the stuff they already know.
R.J. Palacio
#83. The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
Simone De Beauvoir
#84. For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?
Stendhal
#85. It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
Pope Francis
#86. Shut it." "My my, someone's grumpy today. Are you shedding the lining of your uterus?
Jewel E. Ann
#87. you are snakeskin
and i keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened
Rupi Kaur
#88. Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.
Lucy Ellmann
#89. I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.
Suki Waterhouse
#90. A drunken whore walks in a dark street at night, shedding snatches of song like petals. Was it in this that Anthony heard the heart-numbing strains of the great music which persuaded him to surrender for ever to the city he loved? The
Lawrence Durrell
#91. a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor
Matthew Hughes
#92. Doom that walks always swiftly, because she goes to the shedding of blood
Oscar Wilde
#93. If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?
Munia Khan
#94. The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn
Alan Garner
#95. the dissolution of reality in interpretation is also an (act of) interpretation, which puts the historicity of the interpreter into play, and is not a discovery or a shedding of light onto a past error that would be uncovered on the basis of an objective awareness of the facts.
Gianni Vattimo
#96. There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just
Seth Godin
#97. I begin to shed my Martha-like anxiety about many things. Washable slipcovers, faded and old - I hardly see them; I don't worry about the impression they make on other people. I am shedding pride.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#98. Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
Paul Kantner
#99. The beast is dry and mottled, shedding skin
as minutes drop from life, a wristy piece
of dogged ugliness, its labors meant
to carve from language beauty, that beauty which
lifts free of flesh to find itself in print
John Updike
#100. Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Loren Eiseley
