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We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, an... by Taisen Deshimaru

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

Taisen Deshimaru
shells crush light
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the t... by Sylvia Plath

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Sylvia Plath
pebbles shells silence

It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.

Tarek Saab
shells guilty sin

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

Ted Hughes
shells sea sound
Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth... by Thomas Sowell

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

Thomas Sowell
subsidies shells games

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

Tom Duff
shells examination littles

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Tom Robbins
shells naive taught

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

Tom Stoppard
shells bullets thinking
Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in ca... by Tupac Shakur

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

Tupac Shakur
shells weed death

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

W. C. Fields
shells united-states games

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Walter Savage Landor
shells obscurity pearls

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

William Beveridge
shells ocean men

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

William Butler Yeats
shells toil earthquakes
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you w... by William Cowper

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

William Cowper
shells delight cat

You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

William Mackergo Taylor
shells done goes-on
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you wo... by William Shakespeare

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

William Shakespeare
shells eggs eating

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

Zoe Kazan
shells grateful actors

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Zoe Saldana
stay-focused shells men
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future insid... by Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston
shells eggs past

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

Shimon Peres
stop shells poverty ignorance
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