Flanks Quotes

#1. his flanks were tucked up with hunger.

Erin Hunter

#2. But she could not reduce her vision to words, since it was no single shape coloured upon the dark, but rather a general excitement, an atmosphere, which, when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of the northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools.

Virginia Woolf

#3. All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Kiran Desai

#4. We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

#5. As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Philip Jose Farmer

#6. The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

#7. Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending
that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands,
these shins, these soapy flanks

Richard Siken

#8. So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

#9. The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.

Erwin Rommel

#10. His first two months at Brakebills spun by, and soon red and gold leaves were scattering across the Sea, as if they were being pushed by invisible brooms - which possibly they were? - and the flanks of the slow-moving topiary beasts in the Maze showed streaks of color. Quentin

Lev Grossman

#11. The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on.

Lord Byron

#13. Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Robert M. Sapolsky

#14. Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Pat Conroy

#15. The mountains are as I have always remembered them, the first light of the morning melting down their flanks.

Tan Twan Eng

#16. The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.

Diablo Cody

#17. Have you ever watched a deer walking out from cover? They step, stop, and stay, motionless, nose to the air, looking and smelling. A nervous twitch might run down their flanks. And then, reassured that all is safe, they ankle their way out of the brush to graze.

Helen Macdonald

#18. The light moves slowly down its flanks and gradually fills the lower valleys.

Kahn, Peter H. , Jr.
Hasbach, Patricia H.
2012-08-13 Ecopsychology

Peter H. Kahn Jr.

#19. High on its flanks is a complex of caves where the kings and heroes of the Mountain Kingdoms have been laid to rest, their bodies preserved by the sub-zero temperatures and thin, high-altitude air.

Philip Reeve

#20. Even the banana plantations, the big, hardy trees on the flanks of Mount St. Andrew, seemed to lilt and acquiesce in the heat.

Anthony Doerr

#21. Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#22. Don't worry about things that you simply cannot know. Let them fall back and recede like the foam pushed aside by the flanks of a ship. Leave them behind and let your heart power on.

Mark Helprin

#23. Are you reading your Bible?"
Ah, well ... I was."
And then you quit."
You got it."
Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

Jan Karon

#24. Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling.

Joe Simpson

#25. Let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. Little animal that I am, sucking my flanks in and out with fear, I stand here, palpitating, trembling. But I will not be afraid. I will bring the whip down on my flanks. I am not a whimpering little animal making for the shadow.

Virginia Woolf

#27. And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.

Stella Gibbons

#28. Regaining control of the gelding, Fiddler drove his heels into its flanks. They bolted forward, savagely riding down the group's generous leader.

Steven Erikson

#29. If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

Austin O'Malley

#30. Acceptance
There are things I miss
that I shouldn't,
and those I don't
that I should.
Sometimes we want
what we couldn't
sometimes we love
who we could.

Lang Leav

#31. Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Leigh Hunt

#33. Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

Erno Rubik

#34. And they say an addiction to novels is bad for you.

Anne Gracie

#35. Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

Gregory Peck

#36. If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

Jurgen Moltmann

#37. The service of humanity, is the service of God.

Abhijit Naskar

#38. There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Alan Palomo

#39. When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.

Tim Salmon

#40. I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

Bernie Sanders

#41. Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.

Josemaria Escriva