Eggshells Quotes - Page 2

• Politically correct enforcement that`s out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Mind, Enforcement

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• Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

  James Patterson

  Humans

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

  Susan Minot

  Sports, Snow, Miracle

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• What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

  Neil Gaiman

  Storm, Needs, Filled

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.

  Shani Davis

  Jobs, Athlete, Who I Am

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• I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Views, Work Out

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.

  William Faulkner

  Fall, Cutting, Color

  "Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction". Book by Rosa Coldfield (p. 32), 1994.

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