11 Ragged Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Myself You People Important Think Eye Out Run Give Take Miss Miss You Longevity Know Spread Get Want Break While Public Public Eye Ragged Thin Chance

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

Love Emotions Fog Kind Pluck Attempt Raw Most Leaps Because Still Susceptible Short Order Moving Meaning Ragged Speech

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape. Tracee Ellis Ross

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. Mary Harris Jones

Desperate Men Clothes Despair Nursed Back Strike Out Martyrs Driven Dead Mothers Were Children Laid Sanity Who Ragged

The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder - it gets a little bit ragged. Dierks Bentley

There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert listener, and there's a waiting for it to happen: a waiting for the horn to fluff; a waiting for the strings to become ragged; a waiting for the conductor to forget the subdivide, you know? And it's dreadful! Glenn Gould

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged. Sandra Tsing Loh

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be. Stewart O'Nan

Service Needs Long Characters Only Always Short Story Ragged Neat

The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program. Terry Glavin

Life Morning Post Young Conservatives Took Immigrant Immigrants Folded More Had Clear Investors Over Became Reveal Revenue South Up Than Canada Did After China Ragged Program

I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil - just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer. Jonathan Franklin

Best Motorcycle You Class World Gun World-Class Pants Machine Machine Gun Backstage Out Dares Touch Throw No-One Taken Red Feel Perhaps Untouchable Make Because Festival Quite Just Them Racer Pair Ragged Right Creek Honda

Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up. Jenna McCarthy

Once Thousand Joe Admit Husbands About Unquestionably Scattered Never Days House Leave Go Left Up Five Did Handsome Togetherness Toilet Ragged Now Seat Nearly Right