Hairbreadths Quotes & Sayings

Black-on black crime' is jargon, violence on language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Let us leave this room, said Melancthe. It reeks of the brain. — Jack Vance

It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years! — Emily Bronte

Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means! — George MacDonald

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist. — A.S. Byatt

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance

I dislike your formality." ... "Your formality keeps us at arms length when I want not even a hairbreadths between us. — Carolyn Jewel

My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence. — Rajneesh

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. — Fran Lebowitz

the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world. — Charles McCarry

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth. — Standing Bear

Mrs. Ari's style on 'Entourage' is so fabulous. Gucci is a go-to for her because every season there is something fun, but there's also something classic. — Perrey Reeves