#ragged

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. ↗

— Aaliyah

#chance #eye #get #give #i

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#between #calamity #difference #dragged #fell

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#down #dragged #either #individual #lift

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. ↗

— James Thurber

#down #dragged #drawing #level

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#attack #class #could #daddy #edges

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!' ↗

— Angus Young

#amp #amplifier #church #down #dragged

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. ↗

— William R. Alger

#desire #diagonal #duty #life #life is a

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. ↗

— Mary Antin

#dragged #every #flag #fly #house

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#being #boxing #century #changing #dragged

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#because #emotions #fog #i #i love