Chafing Quotes

• I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

  Amy Lowell

  Missing You, Missing Someone, Tired

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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• They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.

  Marian Keyes

  Running, Cutting, Agony

  Marian Keyes (2005). “Rachel's Holiday”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

  David Sedaris

  Christmas, Years, Evening

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• Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Self, Resistance, Saying Yes

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.51, Moody Publishers

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• I probably have the worst wardrobe. It's the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There's bad chafing, and it's always tight in all the wrong places. What's sad is that I'm kinda getting used to it.

  Josh Hopkins

  Color, Patterns, Nipples

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• Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• The heart hath treble wrong
  When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.144

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• There's a balance and I feel very, very strong and very, very fit at the moment. There's no - touch wood - niggles at the moment, there's nothing that's twinging or nothing that's too painful. Apart from a bit of chafing from the wetsuit!

  Greg James

  Strong, Balance, Woods

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, uk.askmen.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Cities, Melting

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• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

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