Shells Quotes - Page 5

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.

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

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

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.

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

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

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

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.