Wrapt Quotes

#1. Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

Pindar

#2. Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...

Harriet Martineau

#3. So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Angelina Grimke

#4. There are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see but we feel their foorce and sink under their sword.

Jeremy Taylor

#5. Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

John Flavel

#6. It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

John Milton

#7. I've seen what commitment leads to, and it isn't pretty. Going in is the easy part. It's the endings that suck.

Sarah Dessen

#8. He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#9. Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.

Thomas Chatterton

#10. Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

John Chamberlain

#11. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#12. What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.

Jeannette Walls

#13. So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

Tacitus

#14. I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Fred Seibert

#15. To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.

George Herbert

#16. The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.

Albert Einstein

#17. I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

Manny Mota

#18. a pot a cook but the food na kno

Bob Marley