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  • Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

  • Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

  • Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

    Rain   Stones   Enough  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House
  • I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

    Love   Stars   Men  
  • There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

    Forgiveness   War   Eye  
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.702, Delphi Classics
  • My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

    Princess   Shoes   Red  
    Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.35, HarperCollins
  • I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

    "'Peace without Syria Is Unthinkable'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz, www.spiegel.de. January 19, 2009.
  • I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

    Jobs   Weekend   Giving  
  • Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

    Light   Jewels   Sweaters  
    "Simply brilliant: Cher Dior lights up Paris" by Maria Doulton, The Telegraph, August 16, 2011.
  • I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

    Years   Dresses   Pieces  
    "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.
  • You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

    Names   Worn   Recalls  
    Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
  • What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

    Travel   Feet   Track  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics
  • I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

    Annoyed   Watches   Worn  
    "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
  • I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

    Love   Pain   Years  
    Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin
  • Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

    Mean   Dark   White  
  • The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

    Views   Politics   Next  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

    Self   Down And   Band  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

    Hearing   Worn  
  • I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.

    Winter   Dark   Thinking  
  • In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

    Answers   Bears   Satan  
    Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
  • To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

    Beauty   Home   Hair  
    "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)
  • I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they had at the time, just trying not to starve to death. It's the kind of suit that is worn in the rain and shrinks on the body and becomes a second skin, which is different than someone who willfully dropped out.

    Rain   Men   Skins  
    "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.
  • When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

    Dog   Heart   Eye  
  • Lingerie is my next love after clothing; I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes - that inner, secret glamour.

  • I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

    Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
  • I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

    Jobs   Hair   Long  
    "Sam Elliott Interview – THE GOLDEN COMPASS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2007.
  • The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

    Memories   War   People  
  • You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

    Source: www.neh.gov
  • I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

  • Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

    "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.
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