Ragged Quotations

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.

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

Last year we got ragged on quite a bit, but I thought we were pretty good. The difference is this year we have a lot of different looks. You've got guys who can do more than one thing.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

We're all a bit ragged here, to say the least.

The penalties were our fault and the turnovers were bad decisions. You've got to hold onto the ball. We had poor field position all day because of our own doing. Special teams were ragged all day on our return units.

You make sure you cover all the things we did poorly. Sometimes in a win like that, you have a tendency to say we played great, but you miss a lot of things that we did poorly. Penalties were definitely a problem. We turned the ball over. ... We've been riding a ragged edge. That's not good football. We've got to fix it. We've got to look at it as a great win, but there's things we need to improve upon.

We stay here, get it done, as haphazardly as it may look, ... We have already started to talk about this being a ragged session. It should not have gotten so much out of hand.

At 5-foot-5, it was a great effort for Andy to go over a couple of six-footers to get the game-winner. The play got pretty ragged and ugly, but it was nice to not only get a win but to do it in comeback fashion. There were a lot of positive things that we can bring out of the game to build on.

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

It was a little ragged for both teams. There were a lot of mental and physical mistakes. It didn't seem either team was mentally ready to play.

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.

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.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere -- be decietful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

A stunning example of success for the Haitian people. They came out early, they braved the ragged initial disorganization and insisted on voting, and did.

It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.

They just make you play a ragged game. They are extremely well-coached and they always have a good defense. I'm pleased to put up 82 points on them, and I thought we were outstanding defensively.

Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge.

Social services have always been difficult to run, especially when you're new. Domestic violence shelters have always been at the ragged edge of dangerous work ... and people are afraid of shelters.

The kids have a lot of confidence going and playing on the road. It?s something that they take pride in, and they don?t get rattled by the atmosphere. In fact, it seems like the more adverse the atmosphere, the better we play. It?s kind of strange. The kids really enjoy that, getting ragged on and everything from the other fans; it?s kind of something they take some pride in.

The Microsoft delay has hurt the Nasdaq and will reverberate throughout all of technology. That will be today's big headline. We closed ragged yesterday, so we're going to have a tired market to start.

do you have to sit so close?" she asked on a ragged breath. "Yes." was his only reply. "want to tell me why?" "no." (Darius replied) "i don't like it." She insisted scooting from him for the second time. He moved closer "want to tell me why?" he parroted. "No" she parroted right back.

The eight rounds made one ragged hole that you could cover up with your thumb.

Death is dancing me ragged.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe