Buttresses Quotes

#1. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Erich Fromm

#2. Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

John Simon

#3. Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

Malcolm Lowry

#6. It is a most blessed thing to have no props and no buttresses, but to stand upright on the Rock of Ages, upheld by the Lord alone.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Included in the Presqueville is the Cathedrale St.-Jean, a church built during medieval times, including both Romanesque and Gothic styles; its nave, with its flying buttresses flinging out their support as the walls sweep toward the heavens

Jane Thompson

#8. I, uh, I hit a tree."
"Well, I'm sure it had it coming.

Derek Landy

#9. I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

Jonathan Shapiro

#10. Life's a gift. It doesn't always fit comfortably, but it's precious. I wouldn't have hurt you and your brothers by throwing mine away.

Nora Roberts

#11. When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited ...

Zig Ziglar

#12. The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner