Quotes About Shrivel

#1. Somebody said a long time ago that if the Devil can't make you sin, he will make you busy, because either way your soul will shrivel.

John Ortberg

#2. Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

Richard Branson

#3. Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Alfie Kohn

#4. If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

Richard Branson

#5. So I'd been captured? So I was starving?
Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die?
I could still slither. I could still hiss.
Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom.
What I needed was a new plan.

Patrick Jennings

#6. Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

Peter Hook

#7. A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.

Helen Fielding

#8. Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes.

Jael McHenry

#10. I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

Janette Rallison

#11. If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.

Regina Brett

#14. Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.

Allie Brosh

#15. All Lucas had to do was exert his will and the unfaithful bastard's heart would shrivel in his chest. But where was the fun in that?

D.B. Reynolds

#16. Your penis will not shrivel up and die if you admit you want an umbrella instead of standing in the rain acting like a little water never hurt anyone. It's an unbrella, not a purse.

Jenny O'Connell

#17. Maybe when you're young, you love people as much for their potential as for who they are right now. And if that's the case, what happens to love when time passes and that potential starts to shrivel and fade? Does love die with it?

Janelle Brown

#18. Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

Katie MacAlister

#19. The wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes.

Anonymous

#20. Even we are guilty of not nurturing gifts, and the gifts that aren't fed shrivel and die.

Mary E. Pearson

#21. Yes, she wanted to make us undone that night, when we were young, innocent, trusting, having known only the sweetest part of living. She wanted to wither our souls and shrivel us small and dry, perhaps never to feel pride again.
But she didn't know us.

V.C. Andrews

#22. IF A BRAIN could shrivel up and die from too much contemplation, mine was dangerously close to living out the rest of its days as a pruney, gray raisin.

Nicole Williams

#23. If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Richard Branson

#24. How could you sleep, knowing that any second your insides might begin to rot, your skin decay to slime, your brain shrivel to dust?"
"I fell asleep with my throat cut. I am a professional.

A.E. Marling

#25. Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Douglas Hurd

#26. Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!

Rachel Field

#27. In the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

Clark Ashton Smith

#28. Sometimes friendships go bad, she tells herself. Relationships soften and rot like old fruit. They have their time, and then they shrivel and grow putrid. She

Jennie Fields

#29. Such an incredible waste of energy, to work your ass off for sixty years, then shrivel up, die, and be nothing more than a memory - if you're lucky enough to leave someone behind who will remember you. There must be more. Don't you think?

Ellen Hopkins

#30. There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

Dorothy Parker

#31. It's a shame watching life shrivel up into nothing. Makes you remember to appreciate what you've got. Anybody can tell you Ed started breaking the day Emma died.

John Northcutt Young

#32. It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

#33. I believe the flower's purpose is not to be beautiful; it is to grow. Many seeds shrivel in the ground, but this one grew, and therefore it has been picked already, it is chosen already, it is beautiful already.

Rachelle Dekker

#34. Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.

Richard Branson

#35. The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#36. If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.

Rick Warren

#37. I don't ever want to leave this bed, my lady Taryn. (Sparhawk)
Me either. But if we don't, it could get ugly after a few days. We'd shrivel up from lack of water. (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.

Dennis Lehane

#39. It's almost as if we're afraid of words. They hang in the air, unspoken, and then seeing that they're not going to be used, they shrivel and die.

Crystal

#40. If you forget to water your creative spirit every day, it can begin to shrivel just as a new plant will. Your spirit thrives when the right amount of attention is given to it and so does creativity.

Pam Carriker

#41. She'd passed sentence on God two years ago, and she fed her doubts of Him daily, taking care they didn't shrivel and die.

Karin Kaufman

#42. I've always thought that if little straight boys were taught that the one surefire, telltale sign of repressed homosexuality was the beating and killing of gay men - and the truth is lurking around that idea somewhere - then gay-bashing would shrivel away within a generation.

Wesley Gibson

#43. If I could take a pill to suck out my insides, shrivel me up into dried-out bones for dogs to cart away, I would do it. Right there.

Janet Gurtler

#44. Dreams are nervy things - all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

Lloyd Jones

#45. My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men's souls, could deprive humans of rights they unhesitatingly accord their livestock. I

John Howard Griffin

#46. The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Jens Jensen

#48. It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.

Janna Sproul

#49. Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

Swami Vivekananda

#50. Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or ... "
"Or we'll die?" I guessed.
"Well ... after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes."
"Let's avoid the swords," I decided.

Rick Riordan

#51. Everything you have ever read about vampires - most of it is inaccurate or downright false. We are not beautiful, we don't turn into bats, we don't shrivel up in the sunlight and we are most definitely not afraid of something as fickle as garlic.

K.A. Poe

#52. Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

Elizabeth Smart

#53. Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?

George Herbert

#54. It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.

Asa Larsson

#55. The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.

Mary Doria Russell

#56. We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Hyman Rickover

#57. Maggie faces me, forcing herself to smile again. It looks unnatural, as if that smile wants to shrivel and crawl away to a dark corner to weep.

Kelsey Sutton

#58. People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up

Richard Branson

#59. In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.

M. Scott Peck

#60. Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

Mitch Albom

#61. It appears time has two different effects on the heart," I say, still looking at the leaves. "It either makes it swell with love or shrivel with bitterness.

Katie Kacvinsky

#62. I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

Veronica Roth

#63. A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

Charles B. Rangel

#64. There are a lot of ways to castrate a bull," I said, my words deliberate and slow. "You can band the balls off, so they shrivel up and die. Or you can take a knife, and slide it just so." I demonstrated with my free hand. "I grew up on a ranch. I know a lot about castrating bulls.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#65. It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#66. Hough silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Nuala O'Faolain

#67. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

Alec Guinness

#68. All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be played in front of an audience of people we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame

Alice Pung

#69. cursed hat. It made his ears shrivel up." Harry laughed but didn't

J.K. Rowling

#70. I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.

Edward Thomas

#71. Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

Christopher Pike