Wilting Quotes

• National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services

  Corazon Aquino

  Government, Media, Leader

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

  Confucius

  Art, Truth, Anger

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• Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Rose, Black

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• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Being Happy, Money

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

  Jack Dangermond

  Water, Plant, Walks

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• I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

  Scott Thompson

  Flower, Fighting, Bridges

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• Here's my problem. On Valentine's Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Flower, Problem

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• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Political, Politics

  Book of the Law (1909)

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• Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Command, Hippo

  "The confessions of S. Augustine: A revised translation".

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• I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Flower, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

  Leven Rambin

  Girl, Flower, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.

  Judith Martin

  Pain, People, Sick

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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