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Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom. -- William Shakespeare
I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me. -- Sarah McLachlan
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. -- Edmund Burke
I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M. -- Catherine Tate
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. -- William J. Clinton
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. -- Dylan Moran
'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market. -- Rob Manuel
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was. -- Hedy Lamarr
Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. -- Martin Seligman
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. -- Benito Mussolini
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. -- Robert South
I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me. -- Sarah McLachlan
To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts. -- Jean Chatzky
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! -- Steven Weber
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. -- Bernard DeVoto
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. -- Camille Paglia
The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly? -- Elizabeth Bibesco
I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry. -- Lionel Shriver
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Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order. -- Hans F. Sennholz
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. -- Lauren Oliver
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. -- St. Catherine of Siena
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never. -- Edvard Munch
the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon! -- Anne Bosworth Greene
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside. -- Paul Haggis
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits. -- Russell M. Nelson
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings. -- Eric Samuel Timm
Just remember, when your motherâ??s gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you. -- Cassandra Clare
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them. -- William Shenstone
Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent. -- D. H. Lawrence
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. "¦ A gnawing burns inside "¦ to make something of myself worth giving. -- Minor White
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity. -- Lawrence Kushner
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. -- Terry Tempest Williams
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. -- Richard Russo
Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger. -- Amy Efaw
But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging. -- Dave Barry
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement. -- Henry Giroux
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. -- Loretta Young
I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition. -- Thomas L. Dumm
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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