Wraps Quotes

• God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

  Jim Butcher

  Good Life, Exercise, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.

  Anne Hathaway

  Hate, Mean, College

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forever, Today

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• Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Signals, Insulation

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• Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

  Umberto Eco

  Race, Coward, Principles

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• Almost every day I wrap up my two-hour live broadcast and I say to myself as I'm driving home, 'I wish I would've done this' or 'We really should have gone live longer with this segment.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Home, Should Have, Two

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• Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

  Patti Callahan Henry

  Grief, People

  Patti Callahan Henry (2007). “Between The Tides”, p.173, Penguin

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• Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

  Sterling W Sill

  Home, Thinking, Chinese

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• Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

  E. Lockhart

  Powerful, People, Secret

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.44, Hot Key Books

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• Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.

  Charles Bates

  Philosophy, Exercise, Realization

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• Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

  George Takei

  Movie, Play, Three

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• The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Space, Imagination

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• Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To "sleep in Christ," like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Voice

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

  Nicole Hollander

  Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

  Sophocles

  Halloween, Dark, Clouds

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.85, Sophocles

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• But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.

  Ransom Riggs

  Monday, Book, Years

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.18, Quirk Books

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• We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

  Michael Beckwith

  God, Treasure, Spirituality

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• Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!

  Molly Kelly

  Abstinence, Intercourse, Ifs

  "Sex, Love, and You: Making the Right Decision". Book by Judy Lickona, Thomas Lickona, and William Boudreau, 1994.

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• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Autumn

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• In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

  Muhammad al-Baqir

  Grief, Escaping, Greed

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• I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.

  Ani DiFranco

  Fall, Remember, Yeah

  Song: Worthy

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• All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

  Ira Berkow

  Stuff, Today, Chance

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