Snags Quotes

#1. Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

Robert Baden-Powell

#2. Which suggested to me that a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal.

Ralph Ellison

#3. Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

Anne Monroe

#4. Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

Jim Shepard

#6. Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Alan Turing

#7. Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don't let the little snags affect the progress of your life.-RVM

R.v.m.

#8. I'm so sorry, I continue. And it's like the last word is a hurdle and I can't leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.

David Levithan

#9. She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags.

Ainslie Hogarth

#10. The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

Theresa Sjoquist

#11. His burning gaze snags on my braid, following it across my shoulder and over the swell of my breast. As his eyes dip, his lips part, and his fingers twitch on his thigh. My

Amanda Bouchet

#12. But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus neither that fireman nor I had any time to peer into our creepy thoughts.

Joseph Conrad

#13. It had been forever since I'd felt like I wanted to take over someone's sexual history, completely overwrite it with my hands and dick and mouth.

Christina Lauren

#14. I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

Ving Rhames

#15. It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Louis Malle

#16. What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

Kazuya Minekura

#17. In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#18. The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

John Stuart Mill

#19. Lady
is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy word. I beseech you, remember (it is an article of your church covenant) that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the word of God.

John Robinson

#21. I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.

Kim Harrison

#22. We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. Being upset is a warmer, close-up feeling, not a chilly distant feeling like laughing at people.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Dorian, we get to come back from this loss - from this darkness. We get to come back, and I came back for you.

Sarah J. Maas

#25. I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.

Joshua Oppenheimer