Raking Quotes

...an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell...-the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences. (Mark Twain)
Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary. For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying. To build a country, Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world. Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppres­sion is justifiable and justified. View quote
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Here by the baring bough Raking up leaves, Often I ponder how Springtime deceives,- I, an old woman now, Raking up leaves. View quote
Thomas Hardy
You disappoint me,all you people raking in on the world.The devil's script sellsyou the heart of a blackbird. View quote
Elliott Smith
I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination. This decision brings me to the problem of what the Government should do with approximately five million unemployed now on the relief rolls. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. View quote
Armand Hammer
raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. View quote
Agnes Smedley
Books are still being written defaming H. P. B. and Mrs. Besant and one wonders what their writers hope to achieve. As far as I can ascertain the modern generation of investigating students are not the least interested in the pros or cons of their characters... What they are interested in is the teaching and the truth. This is wholesome and right. I wish these modern writers who spend months in raking up dirt and endeavoring to prove someone was vile would realise the stupidity of their activities. They do not touch the truth; they do not change the loyalties of those who know; they do not change the trend towards occult realisation and they hurt nobody but themselves. View quote
Alice Bailey
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. ... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. View quote
Chuck Close
I love the business of business; I love the risk raking. View quote
Felix Dennis