Flexes Its Muscles Quotes

#1. We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

Simon Winchester

#2. The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

John Hillaby

#3. An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Thomas Southerne

#4. Going to the gym was never about 'working out' like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I've always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did.

Rich Gaspari

#5. When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

Grover Cleveland

#6. Hands build houses, love builds homes.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#7. A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function.

Henry Hazlitt

#8. I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

Peter Jackson

#9. Why thank you, little lady,' Dan answers, sounding more like John Wayne than me. He flexes his muscles. 'Let me strap on my manly board and show you what I can really do.

Leslea Wahl

#10. If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.

Francis Schaeffer

#11. Eyes and ears are not the problem ... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#12. As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Leon Kass

#13. I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."

Tony Robbins

#14. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

Ujas Soni

#15. Every man is a chauvinist, however much he wishes to be otherwise.

Robyn Donald

#16. You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.

Catherine Brady

#17. Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#18. Worry only wears the body, soul and the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita