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Eggshells Quotes

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness Charles Dickens
Steig Larsson quote: "He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells."
He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells. Steig Larsson
James Merrill quote: "The eggshell of appearance split."
The eggshell of appearance split. James Merrill
Neil Gaiman quote: "What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the..."
What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells? Neil Gaiman
The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. H. G. Wells
This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those... Tom Waits
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment. Barbara Kingsolver
James Patterson quote: "Jeezum—humans were like eggshells."
Jeezum—humans were like eggshells. James Patterson
[Ransom] could not feel that they were an island of life journeying through an abyss of death. He felt almost the opposite-that life was waiting outside the little iron egg-shell in which they rode, ready at any moment to break in, and that, if it killed them, it would kill them by excess of its vitality. C. S. Lewis
Salman Rushdie quote: "After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley..."
After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow. Salman Rushdie
Bill Shankly quote: "Denis Law could dance on eggshells."
Denis Law could dance on eggshells. Bill Shankly

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