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Quotes About Stripping

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
We must focus on strengthening the Affordable Care Act in ways that protect families and small businesses, and not on stripping away coverage from the most vulnerable.
~ Jeff Van Drew
And the careful manipulation of the occluding edges of clothing with progressive revealing of skin is a form of the theatrical art called stripping.
~ James J. Gibson
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
~ C.E. Murphy
The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
All of these things you will have to relinquish sooner or later. Perhaps you find it as yet hard to believe, and I am certainly not asking you to believe that your identity cannot be found in any of those things. You will know the truth of it for yourself. You will know it at the latest when you feel death approaching. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.
~ Eckhart Tolle
More people than not have seen me on television in swim shorts, so I don't have any problem stripping down.
~ Ian Ziering
It is a merciful Father who strips us when we need to be stripped, as the tree needs to be stripped of its blossoms. He is not finished with us yet, whatever the loss we suffer, for as we loose our hold on visible things, the invisible become more precious—where our treasure is, there will our hearts be.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Why are you stripping in my front yard at six in the morning? I have neighbors you know.
~ Nathalie Saade, Poisoned Rose
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
~ Glenda Jackson
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.
~ Diablo Cody
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
~ Robert Musil
Nada más fácil para el ser humano que prescindir de lo que no es natural en él
~ Santiago Gamboa
As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is far deeper than that built upon fantasy, and suffering teaches one that happiness can catch a person unawares in the midst of deprivation and desolation. There is a certain stripping away of the externals which makes one more sensitive to joy as well as to sorrow.
~ Sheila Cassidy
It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.
~ Cal Thomas
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
~ Berkeley Breathed
Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.
~ Marc Parent
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.
~ Heather Nova
Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.
~ Bruce Sterling
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
~ C E Murphy
What is stripped away is not our humanity but our idolatries, not faith but our false hopes, not meaning but out illusions. Dying in order to live.
~ Charles Ringma