Wrap Quotes - page 2

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. (George Galloway)
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though the war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves. View quote
Albert Camus
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. View quote
Alexander Smith
I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience. View quote
Johnny Depp
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness. View quote
Virginia Woolf
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.) View quote
Anatol Rapoport
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes. View quote
Brené Brown
There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? (Leslie Stephen)
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder. View quote
Bill Bailey
I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. View quote
Ryan Gosling
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us. View quote
Rick Riordan
But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects. View quote
Rick Riordan
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. View quote
Rick Riordan
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image. View quote
Ted Dekker
(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and-oh-tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nick cleared his throat. "Do not ... and I mean do ... not ... take this the wrong way, okay?” He wrapped his arms around Ash and hugged him. "I will always be your brother,” he whispered in Ash's ear. "And I won't ever hate you. (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth. View quote
Deb Caletti
Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. View quote
Deb Caletti
What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. View quote
Douglas Preston