Buckle Under Quotes

#1. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My

Sara Raasch

#2. Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

James Alan Gardner

#3. I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.

Edward Burtynsky

#4. Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

Laura Wiess

#5. I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Ron Perlman

#6. I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Jeanne Calment

#7. I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

Saad Hariri

#8. You might be a redneck if ... your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.

John Scalzi

#10. Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Paula Hendricks

#11. The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#12. Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. ... is inhabited by a Mrs. Buckle,four children,a fat black woman, and myself and a man.

Robert Gould Shaw

#14. In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow.

Cartier Martin

#15. And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

Anne Lamott

#16. You'll be alright," I say, "Mum likes you.

J.A. Buckle

#17. Will you buckle in? It's bad enough we kidnapped you.

C.L.Stone

#18. To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

George Earle Buckle

#19. more than 90 percent of the female runners come home with a buckle, while 50 percent of the men come up with an excuse. Not even Ken Chlouber can explain the sky-high female finishing rate, but he can damn well exploit it: "All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

Christopher McDougall

#20. If I really buckle down, I think one day I could be a very good actress.

Megan Fox

#21. If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever.

Lyle Lovett

#22. Helping Wall Street regain confidence and stability was the last thing an angry public wanted in 2009 after the markets crashed. But without such support, markets can buckle and liquidity can disappear - often for decades, as has been the case in Japan.

David Ignatius

#23. All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

George Mason

#24. In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who am I against the night?

Ana Novac

#25. If I don't get a girlfriend soon (number one on the list) I may have to resort to drastic measures like surgery (me) or hypnosis (them).

J.A. Buckle

#26. They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

George Earle Buckle

#27. This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.

Mikey Way

#28. The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#29. She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted. She cared naught for living in the moment, but apparently her body was sensible. It wanted to breathe.

Julie Anne Long

#30. Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died.

Leonard Mlodinow

#31. Don't use the buckle," she told him with a laugh, her eyes closed, head bent.
"I haven't beaten a woman with my belt before, Simone. That doesn't mean I don't have any clue about how to do it.

Megan Hart

#32. She was so stupid. He was just another cowboy looking for someone to shine his buckle, and she'd fallen for it. What a fool. But, she wasn't a fool anymore. She knew who and what she was, and that man was not coming back into her life. No matter how sexy he still was.

Tamara Hoffa

#33. There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Buckle up. It'd be embarrassing to die in a hearse.

Stephanie Bond

#35. If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

David Sills

#36. Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

Michael Longley

#37. In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

George Earle Buckle

#38. When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#39. Careful, demon. I've shrunken heads bigger than yours. Her pointed stare at the stop below his belt buckle had him growling.

Eve Langlais

#40. We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

James Russell Lowell

#41. The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#42. It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO

Christopher Healy