Swathed Quotes

#1. Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

Alexander MacLaren

#2. Her hands were to her face but she could see through the prison of her fingers could see them how they were beautiful wrapped in light swathed in the bright angelic robes of Acceptance

Stephen King

#3. His account books reflect a concern with fashion, as shown by periodic visits to a French tailor, and his sartorial elegance is confirmed in portraits. In one painting, he wears a double-breasted coat with brass buttons and gilt-edged lapels, his neck swathed delicately in a ruffled lace jabot.

Ron Chernow

#4. Swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.

Philip Pullman

#5. He's a contradiction: taut magic coiled to strike, gentleness at war with severity, a tongue as sharp as a whip's edge, yet skin so soft he could be swathed in clouds.

A.G. Howard

#6. Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Murray Rothbard

#7. I am a thing made of lace and blood. Swathed in silk and dripping with the dark deeds of men.

Laura Thalassa

#8. As the still ocean paths before the shark in starred and glittering waterways, beauty-high, the moon-swathed trees divided, pair on pair, while flapping nightbirds cried across the air.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#11. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it.

E. M. Forster

#13. The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.

Said Nursi

#14. During winter 2013, the Disneyland Railroad station and it's "Population" sign was swathed in a huge tent for refurbishment; when the tent was removed, the updated population sign read 650 million.

Leslie Le Mon

#15. I guess the most epic romances are still tucked away within the pages of her favorite novels, safely swathed in inked lies and faded paper promises. Forever fictional. Just like love.

S.L. Jennings

#16. Slim young women were swathed in chic black dresses, here to attend a ceremony in one of the hotel's many reception rooms. They wore small but expensive accessories, like vampire finches in search of blood, longing for a hint of light they could reflect.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

Pablo Neruda

#18. Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh ... (He reflects.) We wouldn't have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?

Samuel Beckett

#19. She will be your death. She will be everyone's death." "She has failed most miserably at being 'everyone's death.' She's effectively harmless, Membricus." "No woman is ever harmless!

Sara Douglass

#20. Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

Kaki King

#21. I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

Natasha Leggero

#22. I use "perpetrated" because it's the kind of word that passive-voice writers are fond of. They prefer long words of Latin origin to short Anglo-Saxon words - which compounds their trouble and makes their sentences still more glutinous. Short is better than long. Of the 701 words in

William Zinsser

#23. People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

Tania Raymonde

#24. My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.

Junior Seau

#25. Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

Mario Cuomo

#26. The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

William Seward

#27. Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

Jennifer Lawrence