Straggling Quotes

#1. Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Thomas Paine

#2. It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

Wallace Stevens

#3. As for Bessi, she spent her first human month in an incubator, with wires in her chest, limbs straggling and pleading like a beetle on its back. The incubator had a lot to answer for.

Diana Evans

#4. I'm too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming.

Coco J. Ginger

#5. It is getting toward dinner time and people are straggling back to their rooms with that weary, dejected air which comes from earning a living honestly.

Henry Miller

#6. I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

David F. Swensen

#7. 'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

Steve Erickson

#8. When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

Mike DeWine

#9. Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Audrey Hepburn

#10. It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Christopher Isherwood

#11. Joe might have called that place godforsaken but I could see a whole lot of proof that if there was a God, He'd been there.

Vikki Wakefield

#12. The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

Thomas More

#13. May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace . . . Charlotte

Jacqueline Winspear

#14. But you'll want me someday? That feeling you once had for me ... that hasn't left either?" Our hearts beat the same wild rhythm. They're playing the same song. "It never left," I say.

Stephanie Perkins

#15. I wanted to be part of something bigger

A.R. Rahman

#16. But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Elise Blackwell