Top 22 Sackcloth Quotes
#1. Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists ... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Lafcadio Hearn
#2. I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.
Victoria Moran
#3. It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.
Alexandra Fuller
#4. Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.
Tom Brokaw
#6. That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth
Alastair Reynolds
#7. In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#8. Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
Colman McCarthy
#9. I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there's some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas
Kelley Armstrong
#10. Put the stores of the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all in one; and when the sackcloth was removed,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#11. Art - the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
Lawrence Durrell
#12. You have turned for me my mourning into m dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, 12 that my n glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Anonymous
#13. Increasingly, during those classes, longings had seized me, foreign, torrential aches that overran my heart. I wanted to know things, to become someone.
Sue Monk Kidd
#14. Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.
Shakira
#15. As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.
Louise Rennison
#16. Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.
Joel Osteen
#18. Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#19. When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
Confucius
#20. These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.
Johnny Bench
#21. Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.
Lester Holt
#22. It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.
Dave Barry
