Top 19 Distends Quotes
#1. Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you ... It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning ...
John Mason Brown
#2. Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.
Pope Benedict XVI
#3. Snow does not freeze the hands, but like ether distends the lungs until they burst. All the ships are sinking with fire in their bowels, and there are fires hissing in the cellars of every house.
Anais Nin
#4. She held out her hands in a curve around herself, to show how emotion distends you. It makes you feel full up, a big weight in your chest, and then you don't want your dinner.
Hilary Mantel
#5. Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
Mordecai Richler
#6. The only way out of this mess, of course, is to take steps to ensure that you control the idiots that you become. To take your chain gang, hand in hand, and lead them. The best way to do this is with a list.
Jonathan Nolan
#8. Girls irritated her, intimidated her, and finally bored her; around girls she became a territorial, sniffing their asses, showing her teeth. It was not a part of herself she liked. Around boys she was herself, she could relax; she had nothing to win but them.
Eleanor Henderson
#9. If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
Anthony Foxx
#10. Apparently, a conscience is a useful thing to lack.
Anna Zaires
#11. There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.
Mary Hart
#12. The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
John Berger
#13. It doesn't mean anything to him, she can see by his now-furious glare. He inhales to start shouting, she has no idea what but she doesn't want to hear it, and before he can she snaps, "I'm here to fuck you, Earth burn it. Is that worth disturbing your beauty rest?
N.K. Jemisin
#14. Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
Mercedes Lackey
#15. May my tide never end unless I wash up on the shore of paradise!
Jen Selinsky
#16. We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.
James P. Hoffa
#17. I do not know your woes, Humans, but I do know that they are abundant. Believe in each other, and stand together, and you will conquer them all.
Paul The Astronaut
#18. The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.
Edouard Rene De Laboulaye