Unroofed Quotes & Sayings

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) — Elbert Hubbard

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. — C.S. Lewis

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation. — Benjamin Rush

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. — Rose Schneiderman

A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank flowers, and where the struggling vegetation sickened and sank under the hot breath of kiln and furnace.
On mounds of ashes by the wayside, sheltered only by a few rough boards, or rotten pent-house roofs, strange engines spun and writhed like tortured creatures; clanking their iron chains, shrieking in their rapid whirl from time to time as though in torment unendurable, and making the ground tremble with their agonies.
Dismantled houses here and there appeared, tottering to the earth, propped up by fragments of others that had fallen down, unroofed, windowless, blackened, desolate, but yet inhabited. Men, women, children, wan in their looks and ragged in attire, tended the engines, fed their tributary fire, begged upon the road, or scowled half-naked from the doorless houses. — Charles Dickens

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. — Charlie Chaplin

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind. — Molefi Kete Asante

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying. — Sarah Monette