Top 358 Stripped Quotes & Sayings

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

America has done a great job making brutally fast, stripped-down cars.

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

McCartney's first involvement is to be stripped by Saha

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

In my world, I like everything stripped down, something that's really truthful.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

The tree is stripped, All color, fragrance gone, Yet already on the bough, Uncaring spring!

When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

I have stripped back with loads of things, my hair, my make-up, my lips, right down to my clothes. I feel less is more.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

I think it's stripped down as far as electronics go, but we just wanted to write a record that we felt better represented how we sound live with more of a rock feel, which is the direction we've been heading. It's just an evolution of the band throughout the years. We worked on this record longer than any other record, so I don't know if "stripped down" is how I would put it; I think it is a little bit more raw sounding.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.

I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.

To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.