“ I am a man of substance and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Travel seems not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. ”
- Jan Morris- Copy
- 690
“ The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. ”
- John Muir- Copy
- 3.7K
“ She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 455
“ Before I ever think of a design I have to select the fabrics, so fabrics actually are the inspiration for any collection. ”
- Geoffrey Beene- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 848
“ Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships. ”
- Jeffry A. Timmons- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 506
“ Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all, tet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, giveing us manhood or womanhood fiber. ”
- Frank Crane- Copy
- 416
“ Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2K
“ Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 308
“ Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet. ”
- Jay Kordich- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If a child sees his parents day in and day out behaving with self-discipline, restraint, dignity and a capacity to order their own lives, then the child will come to feel in the deepest fibers of his being that this is the way to live. If a child sees his parents day in and day out living without self-restraint or self-discipline, then he will come in the deepest fibers of being to believe that that is the way to live. ”
- M. Scott Peck- Copy
- 1.4K
“ My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness — if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor — but as I am I must call it laziness… ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ”
- James Buckham- Copy
- 1.8K
“ One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life… ”
- Jonathan Raban- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
- 1.3K
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