Top 315 Wrought Quotes & Sayings

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

Being a minority athlete in this sport, it's been wrought with challenges, but I wouldn't consider myself a trail blazer.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

What God hath wrought?

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him

No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

What Hath God Wrought.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.