Sheaths Quotes

#1. The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

Hilda Doolittle

#2. Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.

Choi Woo-seok

#3. My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball."
Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.

Nalini Singh

#4. It is the woman who sheaths her claws and waits for the perfect opportunity who ends up with the cream from the top of the pail.

Vivienne Lorret

#5. He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?"
"Blades," he whispered, "and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold my blade.

Nalini Singh

#6. Indeed, the graduate student lifestyle maintained no clear distinction between weekday and weekend, a blending together of work and play that culminated, though it often let one accomplish extraordinary amounts, in the gradual erosion of the ability ever to feel free of the obligation to be working.

Jenny Davidson

#7. It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Ralph Nader

#8. God schedules a birthday, not man.

Robert A. Bradley

#9. One cannot conclude that there are no great saints just because no great miracles are worked. The true estimate of life, after all, lies in acts of virtue, not in the display of miracles. There are many, Peter, who without performing miracles, are not at all inferior to those who perform them.

Benet Tvedten

#10. He even pinched himself, just to make sure he'd actually woken up this morning to a pop star in his arms, a Bear on his front steps, and now, God in his backseat.

Amy Harmon

#11. I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

Duane Elgin

#12. Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

Peter Andre

#13. The colour is terrible on her. She could have been dead for ten days. In the water.

Leanne Hall

#14. One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts - who can say when that will come in handy?

Marilyn Johnson

#15. The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Wendell Berry

#16. I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life!

Tim McCarthy

#17. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people

Alexander Hamilton

#18. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

Andrew Ashling