Top 100 Wrapped In Quotes
#1. Life doesn't come wrapped in a bow...But it's still a gift.
Tonya York
#2. The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best.
K.P. Yohannan
#3. He so enjoyed disconcerting a woman of conservative sensibilities, and he suspected that the detective had inhibitions atop reservations wrapped in reticense.
Lucan thinking about Samantha
Dark Need by Lynn Viehl
Lynn Viehl
#4. They were an end-of-days couple, not naked in a garden but wrapped in layers in a snow-covered landscape where there were no more apples on the trees and women would no longer have to take the blame because the old lie had been covered over by snow.
Graham Joyce
#5. When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.
Simon Van Booy
#6. Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. (Another Word: Plausibility and Truth
Daniel Abraham
#7. He didn't say it; he had to keep his desperation from bursting through the thin layer of dignity it had been wrapped in throughout the interview. Clark smiled and patted him on the arm.
Imbolo Mbue
#8. Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
Karen Joy Fowler
#9. I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.
Hilary Mantel
#10. It was like being wrapped in a sheet, all white, nothing but white, above, below, all around you. It was the exact opposite of darkness, but it frightened Alice in precisely the same way.
Paolo Giordano
#11. The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.
Jacob M. Appel
#12. Mick was always the right kind of dirty. Windblown, fresh off his bike, wrapped in tattoo and leather. Muscles all the hell over the place. The man was a serious piece of eye candy. Thinking about him losing the leather warmed the chill that had gripped her since the attack.
Cindy Skaggs
#13. He smelled of moon swamps and old Egyptian bandages. He was something found in museums, wrapped in nicotine linens, sealed in glass. But he was alive, puling like a babe, and shriveling unto death, fast, very fast, before their eyes.
Ray Bradbury
#14. Being loved sounds good in the movies, in books, in the memories of people who've survived the rough beginnings of their love. In real life, in the very beginning? It's every deep fear you've ever wanted to avoid all wrapped in the most intense happiness and pleasure you've ever dreamed possible.
Steph Campbell
#15. We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.
Billy Barty
#16. American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.
R. W. Apple
#17. Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
Dan Groat
#18. Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
Leslie Stephen
#19. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies ...
Neil Gaiman
#20. The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
George Washington
#21. It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.
Thornton Wilder
#22. Wherever you are spiritually, whatever you have been through emotionally, you are already wrapped in the Lord's embrace. Held by nail-scarred hands. Enfolded in the arms of One who believes in you, supports you, treasures you, and loves you.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#23. God does not promise us that life will be free of sorrow and difficult trials, but He does promise us He will always be there to guide us through...wrapped in His arms of love.
Kimberly McCormick
#24. I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Louis Tomlinson
#25. [A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.
Andrea Lochen
#26. There was an energy between us, wrapped in silence, that communicated in a way I had never experienced before.
Rebecca Donovan
#27. I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
Victoria Aveyard
#28. The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ...
Leigh Hunt
#29. Sex is all that it can and should be only when it is surrounded by and wrapped in love.
Kevin Leman
#30. And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.
Merrit Malloy
#31. He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.
William Butler Yeats
#32. On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter.
Yukio Mishima
#33. We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let each other go.
Philippa Gregory
#34. If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
Al Jourgensen
#35. That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I'm kind of glad he hit you.
Lev Grossman
#36. For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.
John Calvin
#37. I am not
made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping.
I don't like boxes; I never have.
Karen Hawkins
#38. He wondered if he should feel a stab of jealousy - Dimple bonding so well with his muscled, much cooler younger brother - but all he felt was this warm, almost gooey feeling in his chest. Like his heart was wrapped in microwaved Nutella.
Sandhya Menon
#39. Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard
#40. I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
Waris Ahluwalia
#41. A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.
Nick Lane
#42. If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze
Kamala Suraiyya Das
#44. Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.
Rebecca Solnit
#45. I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
Shirley Manson
#46. Life breathed spring (haiku)
spring awakening
dance of lovers
delicately wrapped in cherry blossoms
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#47. I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.
Rachel Hore
#49. Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!
Patrick Marber
#50. The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#51. And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie wolves so like in their yammering, yet all about so changed and strange.
Cormac McCarthy
#52. The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts.
It was Matthew's voice that broke the silence, asking, "And what happened after that?"
"After that," said Paul, "came Gettysburg.
Elisabeth Grace Foley
#53. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
Norman Foster
#54. She can be a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a conundrum, rolled in a frito burrito. In other words, a total freaking mystery to anyone who isn't gifted with mind-reading abilities.
Michael Makai
#55. Having you wrapped around me all night, feeling you coming around my fingers, now wrapped in a towel and knowing what's under that shit and not being able to do a damn thing about it is my worst fucking nightmare.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#56. if the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection between God, nature, and man.
Karl Von Eckartshausen
#57. Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
#58. Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.
Kishore Bansal
#59. If I'd known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and
given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer's arms and I needed
the distraction Nicole provided.
Abbi Glines
#60. For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton
#61. Submit to me.
So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.
Virginia Woolf
#62. When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
Huey Long
#63. The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)
Mark Twain
#64. Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.
Haven Kimmel
#65. Instead, she lays her head against my knee and without shame cries and stays there, pinning me so I have nowhere to run or hide and I find myself wrapped in God's comfort anyway, and with a heart full of tenderness for Molly Jones.
Dorothy Adamek
#66. Alice had this magical look about her, like she would be at home in front of a hearth, wrapped in a large quilt, telling nursery rhymes to sweet-faced forest critters.
Alexandra Bracken
#67. Life will throw a lot at you, so you can count on learning something new every day. I have learned to open my heart and let life teach me whatever it has to offer. Every day is a gift wrapped in the lessons of tomorrow.
Amy Lynn Steele
#68. The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
Zhou Yu
#69. The C-4 really did look like a stick of butter, neatly wrapped in brown paper. So did the next brick she took from her trunk. And the next. "How much did you get?" I asked. She shrugged with a smile. "I called in some favors. Figured we might as well go all out on the shock and awe.
Craig Schaefer
#70. Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.
Margaret Mead
#71. We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
William Golding
#72. Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,
Catherynne M Valente
#73. You are a god wrapped in flesh; the divinity you've always been seeking is wrapped within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. Scientism is gnosticism wrapped in a post-modern package".
~R. Alan Woods [2009]
R. Alan Woods
#75. I felt wrapped in a fog of dull pain that hurt only enough to remind me that it, too, was without purpose, and there seemed no point to going through the empty motions of breakfast, the long slow drive to work, no reason at all beyond the slavery of habit. But
Jeff Lindsay
#76. Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
Amy Poehler
#77. Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.
Helen Hodgman
#78. And wrapped in Logan was a toe-curling pleasure trip.
Pam Godwin
#79. Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.
Sinclair Lewis
#80. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
Francois Lelord
#81. I loosen my grip and take a tasteless bite. I don't like bananas much - they're so mealy - but they're a safe fruit to eat, always cleanly wrapped in their own packages. As I chew, I crane my neck to check out the people around us.
Corinne Duyvis
#82. She lay dying, wrapped in invisible robes of martyrdom, presenting her helplessness and passivity to him like adornments, and his dominant feeling was distaste.
Robert Galbraith
#83. The soldiers stomp stomp stomp through the rain, crushing leaves and fallen snow under their feet. Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.
Tahereh Mafi
#84. A castle of defense, a bastion of might
A fort where the wise teach the young to fight
An armory of weapons, sharp as hooks
Are wrapped in leather and shelved as books
Shannon Hale
#85. In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
Dante Alighieri
#86. It's the most beautiful thing in the world." he says, "I just ... " He pauses and looks back into the fire. "I just kept walking. Wrapped in this white nothingness.
Carrie Ryan
#87. Donna was an enigma wrapped in bacon wrapped in a crescent roll.
Tina Fey
#88. So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"
Tommy Cooper
#89. So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets
dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.
Janet Frame
#90. Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.
Shirin Neshat
#91. The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.
Heather Day Gilbert
#93. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.
Nicolle Wallace
#94. The veil I wore was much like the shield I had been wrapped in for my entire life. But I was ready to tear it down and show the world who I really was and see what it had to offer.
C.M. Doporto
#95. I'm like really bad at like remembering all these things, but basically we finished ... we wrapped in August and we locked in February. It was like we did our first friends and family screening I would say 8-weeks after we locked ... after we wrapped or 8-weeks after we wrapped.
Nicholas Stoller
#96. My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft ... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty ... Effulgent.
Joss Whedon
#97. Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...
Robert C. Harvey
#98. Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.
Kishore Bansal
#99. I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat
Eminem
#100. Rose Marie, wrapped in a wool shawl, was sitting on a lounge chair, smoking a cigarette; nicotine gum, she said, was for pussies. She was a short woman, going to weight, with an ever-changing hair color.
John Sandford
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