Whittled Quotes

#1. I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are

William G. Nickels

#2. Sometimes she felt as though she was disappearing, that she was being whittled down to just this terrible feeling, like a sudden aching that appeared all over, not in her body but in her soul.

Anna Quindlen

#3. For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

Bob Barr

#4. Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Russell Baker

#5. A face that looked like it had been whittled out of driftwood.

Chelsea Cain

#6. But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.

James Frey

#7. The friends had been whittled down. The ones who remained were heartwood, marrow. I

Lauren Groff

#8. However, if we conceive of a culture as one body, which it is, we see that all of its disciplines are everybody's business, and that the proper university product is therefore not the whittled-down, isolated mentality of expertise, but a mind competent in all its concerns.

Wendell Berry

#9. That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

Lauren Oliver

#10. There was a chemical solution to all of America's food needs, which had been whittled away for years and years and honed down with precision to train the public that everything they needed to put on the table for their family came in a box, bottle or can.

Kenneth Eade

#11. Wallpaper. Decoration. Her whole life and person, whittled down to nothing. "I don't accept that ," Etta said. I'm neither of those things. And, for the record, neither are you.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

Tim LaHaye

#13. Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer.

Jonathan Renshaw

#15. We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Arianna Huffington

#16. The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

James Luther Adams

#17. I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I'll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But have no fear, I look good in hats.

Chila Woychik

#18. Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex's vocabulary down to one word.

Tessa Bailey

#19. It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

Leland Ryken

#20. Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see. Yet it usually represents aesthetic and theoretical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can access.

Lucy Soutter

#21. My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

Michael Moritz

#22. Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Duke Ellington

#23. It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

Dale Dauten

#24. You can imagine anything at all. And real life is never what you imagine.

Arkady Strugatsky

#25. I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

Daren Kagasoff

#26. In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Gerald M. Weinberg