John Donne
Poet, Cleric
"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time."
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it"
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied."
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"Through your rags I see your vanity."
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"You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags."
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"And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."
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"Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
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"Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."
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"To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had."
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"Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table."
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"My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy."
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"Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it."
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"Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world."
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"Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars."
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"Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags."
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"In our rags of light, all dressed to kill."
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"I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors."
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"Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!"
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"No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper."
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"It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time."
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"I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls."
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"I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts."
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"A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion."
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