Ragged Edges Quotes

#1. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Herman Melville

#2. When you're someone who likes control, this world can often resemble staring into a broken mirror. You see the sharp, ragged edges but lose sight of yourself.

Travis Thrasher

#3. Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Gordon Graham

#4. Marcus looked down. "Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?" he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.

Ripley Patton

#5. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren

#6. When government is ... bailing out banks ... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

Mitt Romney

#7. Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Victor Hugo

#8. I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

Hayley Atwell

#9. I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

Sheri Dew

#10. I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

Britta Phillips

#11. Ever since I could read, I've wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don't think this is worth writing about. But this book isn't for you. It's for me.

Daniel Willey

#12. He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears. He was still human, and someone should prove it to him.

Tonya Burrows

#13. To love your brother is to covet not what is his own

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I've got a very interesting background.

Jackie Chan

#15. When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

Criss Jami

#16. Once lively peonies now
wind-weary, and ragged
at the edges, hang their heavy
crowns; rain on their backs,
one final act, before
detaching from the stem
and falling down.

Kristen Henderson

#17. Beauty is where you find it.

Madonna

#18. We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.

Frederick Townsend Martin

#19. No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

Rod McKuen

#20. If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [ ... ] The upcoming one.

Amor Towles

#21. When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.

Alexandra Bracken

#22. I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

Lewis Black

#23. The mob dispersed, going ragged at the edges as people legged it down side alleys, threw away their makeshift weapons and emerged at the other end walking the grave, thoughtful walk of honest citizens.

Terry Pratchett