Wrap Quotes

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. (Winston Churchill)
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. View quote
Nat Turner
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. View quote
Mike Tyson
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. View quote
Winston Churchill
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. View quote
John Ruskin
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather. (Chogyam Trungpa)
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness. View quote
Shari Arison
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. View quote
Lady Bird Johnson
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think.... of art as a situation of comfort. View quote
Willem de Kooning
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. View quote
Matt Damon
It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it! View quote
Lewis Black
I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping. View quote
Steven Wright
If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person. (Ralph Bunche)
Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time. View quote
Shelley Long
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton