Short Blanket Quotes

#1. Cunning is a short blanket
if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

Austin O'Malley

#2. Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded ...

Plato

#3. Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Wendell Phillips

#4. The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#5. People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Pericles

#7. I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.

Michael Thomas Ford

#8. It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Howard Marion-Crawford

#10. A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

Carine Roitfeld

#11. Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

Augustine Of Hippo

#12. I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

Marty Rubin

#13. Success is just a little more effort.

Sydney J. Harris

#14. Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).

Peter Taylor

#15. Conventional wisdom is that you should find a job that matches your passion. I think this is backwards.

Seth Godin

#16. Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed
sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Jodi Picoult

#17. The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Thomas Paine

#18. My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will never be with someone who never laughs or someone who chews disgustingly, so if either of those things are detected on a date - it's a total deal breaker.

Elizabeth Gillies

#19. Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

Alanis Morissette