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Quotes About Wither

And Heaven, which made thee all blooming, Ne'er made thee to wither on mine.
~ A. Norman Jeffares
No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
~ James Shapiro
Redheads, don't jump, Tony. They hang on-and wither. (I'll Be Waiting)
~ Raymond Chandler
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
~ Karl Kraus
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
~ Mae West
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.
~ Henry Vaughan
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
~ John Piper
I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.
~ John Fogerty
When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.
~ Jane Jacobs
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
~ Alexander Herzen
All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert Burton
Beauty flees,"[...]Will you no longer be you? Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.
~ Robert Jordan
Many seeds had fallen in the stony places of his spirit, to spring luxuriantly up into stalky plants and wither again because they had no deepness of earth; many had been sown there and had died, since his mother scattered the seeds of the wild flowers
~ Aldous Huxley
Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.
~ Anthony Horowitz
But such gossip cannot be confronted. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.
~ Jared Polis
Why not let the main parties wither? Because I know of no better vehicle than the political party to enable those with common values to come together and reach a position on issues that can then be offered up as a choice of programmes for voters.
~ Chuka Umunna
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
~ Rand Paul
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
~ Alexander Herzen
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
~ Hugh Laurie
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?
~ Anne Rice