Limed Quotes & Sayings

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe! — William Shakespeare

My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me. — Marjorie Fleming

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home. — Jill Lepore

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job. — Sienna Miller

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict. — Ori Gersht

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them. — Isabel Allende

If in the moonlight from the silent bough
Suddenly with precision speak your name
The nightingale, be not assured that now
His wing is limed and his wild virtue tame.
Beauty beyond all feathers that have flown
Is free; you shall not hood her to your wrist,
Nor sting her eyes, nor have her for your own
In any fashion; beauty billed and kissed
Is not your turtle; tread her like a dove -
She loves you not; she never heard of love. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see? — Katha Pollitt

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. — William Shakespeare

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn. — Thomas Hardy

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman. — Kangana Ranaut