Shruging Quotes & Sayings

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. — Martha C. Nussbaum

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. — John Green

If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s warming blip (as I'm sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say 0.15 deg C, then this would be significant for the global mean-but we'd still have to explain the land blip ... — Tom Wigley

What you can image, you will be, in the long run. — Norman Vincent Peale

He looked up as the party emerged and nickered a soft hello to his master, who was dressed in an unfamiliar green cloak and had dirt plastered on his face. Halt glanced at him, brow furrowed, and silently mouthed the words 'shut up'. Abelardshook his mane, which was as close as a horse could come to shruging, and turned away.
'My horse recognized me,' Halt said accusingly out of the side of his mouth to Horace.
Horace glanced at the small shagging horse, standing beside his own massive battlehorse.
'Mine didn't,' he replied. 'So that's a fifty-fifty result.'
'I think I'd like odds better than that,' Halt replied.
Horace suppressed a grin. 'Don't worry. He can probably smell you.'
'I can smell myself,' Halt replied acerbically. 'I smell of tea and soot.'
Horace thought it was wiser not to reply to that. — John Flanagan

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful. — Angela Bassett

Nobody can do it for you. — Ralph J. Cordiner

But I'm just telling you right now. The
lucky ones are the ones who don't come back. You hear me? — Amy Harmon

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead. — Thomas Frank

We live in the midst of an evil world, and see few with us, and many against us. We carry within us a weak heart, too ready at any moment to turn aside from the right way. We have near us, at every moment, a busy devil, watching continually for our halting, and seeking to lead us into temptation. Where shall we turn for comfort? What shall keep faith alive, and preserve us from sinking in despair? There is only one answer. We must look to Jesus. We must think on His almighty power, and His wonders of old time. We must call to mind how He can create food for His people out of nothing, and supply the needs of those who follow Him, even in the wilderness. And as we think these thoughts, we must remember that this Jesus still lives, never changes, and is on our side. — J.C. Ryle

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck. — Elizabeth McCracken

You cannot win anymore even if you do your best. Because everyone is doing their best. In order to win, you have to do more than you best. — M.F. Moonzajer