Top 26 Crouches Quotes
#1. Jeb crouches to fill in the sketch's lower half with paint. His lips twist to a cruel sneer. "That's your favorite pastime, right? And you'll have your prince of moths for company.
A.G. Howard
#2. Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Agnes De Mille
#3. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
#4. There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
David Hasselhoff
#5. Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Laozi
#6. For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
James Russell Lowell
#7. The rabbit presses back her ears, Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes And crouches low: then with wild spring Spurts from the terror of his oncoming To be choked back, the wire ring Her frantic effort throttling: Piteous brown ball of quivering fears!
D.H. Lawrence
#8. It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate.
Kendare Blake
#9. This is a terrible plan," he says to Han Solo - Solo, who crouches down so as not to be seen. Han Solo, the jerk. The very handsome, very charismatic jerk. "And I hate you very much.
Chuck Wendig
#10. Misery crouches beside me, ever larger and ever gentler; pain takes an interest, becomes huge and kind; terror flutters up, and it doesn't even frighten me anymore. And that'a the most desolate thing of all.
Joseph Roth
#11. How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
Nadeem Aslam
#12. Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
Herman Melville
#13. Gabe crouches over the radio, trying to get it to pick up one of the mainland music stations, which only works when the weather is just right and the appropriate slain sacrifices have been made.
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.
Kate Atkinson
#15. That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
Kathy Hepinstall
#16. Can anyone deny that we are haunted? What is it that crouches under the myths we have made? Always the physical presence of something split off.
Jeanette Winterson
#17. When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.
Bridget Moynahan
#18. My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Charles Bukowski
#19. It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness - that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.
Henry James
#20. His face, at once beautiful and feral, revealed no more than the lion's face, which says nothing at all as the lion crouches and waits. It speaks only when it springs.
Patricia A. McKillip
#21. The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.
John Banville
#22. There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
Daniel Kahneman
#23. What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
#24. Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities
Sunday Adelaja
#25. The lion crouches in the tall grass. The gazelle sniffs the air. The awful stillness before the strike.
Rick Yancey
#26. She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.
Elena Ferrante
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