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A statesman ... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
— Akhenaton
Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.
— Cornelia Funke
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.
— Charles Spurgeon
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
— Barbara Tuchman
Silence is the garment of light.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
— Luc De Clapiers
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
— Joseph Joubert
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
— John Chrysostom
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
— Samuel Smiles
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
— Eva Jessye
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
— Maria Montessori
A book? O, rare one,
Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers. — William Shakespeare
Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers. — William Shakespeare
Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. "Topology is destiny," he said, and put the drawers on.
— Neal Stephenson
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
— Charles Spurgeon
Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea.
— Graham Lord
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
— Anthony De Mello
If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.
— Mary McFadden
in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.
— Terry Law
Many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
— Rita Mae Brown
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
— Louise Erdrich
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
— Matthew Henry
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.
— F.B. Meyer
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
— Thomas Carlyle
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
— Johann Georg Hamann
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
— Jack Vance
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
— Charles Dickens
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
— Oscar Romero
To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.
— Jane Wagner
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
— Al Lewis
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I know it is strange to feel an emotional connection to a garment, but strange seems to summarize my thinking process in general.
— Katie Kacvinsky
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.
— Fran Lebowitz
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
— Thomas Friedman
Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God. — William Butler Yeats
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God. — William Butler Yeats
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
— Aldous Huxley
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
— Victor Hugo
Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
— Ambrose Bierce
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
— Mary Antin
'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.
— Nicole Richie
Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another ... it's merely a transition.
— Wayne Dyer
A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence. — Rumi
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence. — Rumi
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.
— William Shakespeare
Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.
— Stephen Crane
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
— Heinrich Heine
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
— Larry McMurtry
youth is a marvelous garment
— Iris Murdoch
Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over. — Hilda Doolittle
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over. — Hilda Doolittle
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
— Tom Bodett
Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.
— Umar
For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health.
— Anonymous
Their garment? Have they but one?"
"Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each. — Mark Twain
"Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each. — Mark Twain
As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers.
— Jeanette Winterson
Regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it" (Colossians 3:14).
— Stephen W. Smith
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
— Jean Giraudoux
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny ... I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.
— Tim Gunn
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
— Ray Bradbury
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.
— Walther Von Der Vogelweide
I am sorry to shock you," she said. "But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years.
— Thomas Hardy
Love is the garment of knowledge.
— Kenneth Rexroth
He releases the button on my coat with the snap of his fingers. The traitorous garment flips open, as if to say Help yourself, mister!
— Sally Thorne
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
— Bette Midler
GEN25.25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. GEN25.26
— Anonymous
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
— David Dixon Porter
Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late
the beyed has flown. — F Scott Fitzgerald
the beyed has flown. — F Scott Fitzgerald
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
— Mother Teresa
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.
— Bartholomaus
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. — Kahlil Gibran
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. — Kahlil Gibran
My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W.S. Merwin
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W.S. Merwin
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.
— Bram Stoker
The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.
— Saul Bellow
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.
— John Flavel
Patience is a garment which has never worn out.
— Idries Shah
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
— Kate Chopin
May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.
— Pope Alexander VI
The body is a sacred garment.
— Martha Graham