Buckling Quotes

#1. We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.

Rochelle Maya Callen

#2. Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Diane Ackerman

#3. Your past wouldn't frighten me," I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. "I'm guessing I'd be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. The cultural infrastructure was buckling and society's veil of sanity was slipping away, exposing its uncharitable Id.

Bobby Adair

#5. There is nothing more alarming to a boy than seeing a mother, or a father, buckling. It says to him that all will not be well. The boy does not know this, but he senses it, as a dog senses it, as a dog sense his master's true state of mind. (Lorenzo Dee)

David Ebershoff

#6. The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

Susan Faludi

#7. I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

Eliza Coupe

#8. He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up ... knees from buckling ... hands from letting go of the blanket.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#9. Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back.
'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?

Rick Riordan

#10. Daniel: So, how are you?
Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?

Maria Malonzo

#11. My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

Donald Hall

#12. Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.

Kevin Brockmeier

#13. I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.

Rebecca Stead

#14. You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky.

Elisabeth Hewer

#15. Thomas came last, buckling on his gun belt, which was currently hung with his ridiculously huge Desert Eagle, just in case we were attacked by a rabid Cape buffalo.

Jim Butcher

#16. Billy was walking up the hall, buckling his belt. His tanned face was now sallow and wet with sweat. He says there's a bulge in my aorta. Like a bubble in a car tire. Only car tires don't yell when you poke em.

Stephen King

#17. Guarding your heart is no different from buckling a beautiful child into an infant seat, or placing a seatbelt across your own chest before pulling out of your driveway.

Suzanne Eller

#18. We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.

Lionel Suggs

#19. Godly character is what you are when you've been tried and proven. It is not what you say you are, or what people think you are but, instead, it is what shines through after you have suffered and have endured. It is the proof of your genuineness.

Robin Bertram

#20. The answer is already no, if you don't ask the question.

Darryl Hurd

#21. It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.

William Peter Blatty

#22. Robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

Allen Ginsberg

#23. I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.

Allison Anders

#24. There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#25. I will be your light in the darkness and the pleasure during your despair. I am more than just your star, I will forever be your beacon. (My French is getting better.)

Ashley Pullo

#26. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Douglas Merrill

#27. Thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

Adam Nicolson

#29. If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.

Stephen Wolfram