Quotes About Dragged

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Here they are, this once-prosperous couple, shocked, altered, dragged before the seat of the conqueror who'd promised it was only the servants and petty thieves who'd suffer.

Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

It was a puzzle why things were always dragged kicking and screaming. No one ever seemed to want to, for example, lead them gently by the hand.

Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Cinna, being dragged, bloody and unconscious, from the Launch Room before the Games.

New York City in particular is the economic engine of not just our state, but arguably the nation. If that engine stalls, this entire country could get dragged into the same downward spiral.

If I had your inhibitions", she went on, "we'd never get anywhere. As it is we've dragged one truth to light. If you were in Guy's position you mightn't allow yourself to be divorced because you really do believe in your heart of hearts that marriage is a sacrament." Honesty made him interrupt, "I feel it ought to be".

Power will be the arbiter, as it always has been the arbiter. It is a struggle of classes. Just as your class dragged down the old feudal nobility, so shall it be dragged down by my class, the working class.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

But she was haunted by the terrible memory of the time they had once before dragged a man out of her flat, and out of her life. Her anxiety wouldn't permit it, she had to go out and check.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

I know the number of steps to the top of every spire. I know every corner that a child could hide in, every place she could be dragged out from.

It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

I didn't know that carrying the old typewriter home would totally ruin my life. I dragged the typewriter into the ranch house where I live.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

were they killed in the house and their bodies dragged outside?

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

My only fear is that my absence has gained more weight and popularity than my presence. The past is praised while the present is dragged through the mud.

Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.