Quotes About Wits End

#1. There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy - they've so cluttered up their lives - they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, I love you.

Mike Yaconelli

#2. Honestly, I'm just so fed up with you. I'm at my wits' end.'
Since my mother is always at her wits' end, I'm surprised she had any wits left.

Han Nolan

#3. When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

#4. Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits' end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

George Hammond

#5. God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

James Salter

#6. Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

George Sand

#7. We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

Oswald Chambers

#8. When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Karl Barth

#9. I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

Maria Thayer

#10. I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.

Chad Harbach

#11. Off the tilting world like thread off a

Marilynne Robinson

#12. Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they'll stumble on the right one.

Gore Vidal

#13. Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist.

John Gardner

#14. I am justice," Gregori said softly, his voice impacable in its resolve. "There can be no fight, no battle, as there can be only one outcome. Mental or physical bout, or simply a match of our wits, there can be only one end. I am justice.That is all.

Christine Feehan

#15. Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

Demi Lovato

#16. Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

Shirley Jackson

#17. A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.

Soren Kierkegaard

#18. He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits.

Lady Augusta Gregory

#19. In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.

D. Allen Miller

#20. It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.

Hilaire Belloc

#21. Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.

Sam Starbuck

#22. Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

Andy Goldsworthy

#23. Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." Anonymous

Jessica Wood

#24. There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality.

Sheryl Sandberg

#25. (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

Terry Teachout