Top 100 Loosen Quotes
#1. You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.
Rumi
#2. Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#3. Adivce from a horse
Take life's hurdels in stride.
Loosen the reins.
Be free sprited.
Keep the burrs from under your saddle.
Carry your friends when they need it.
Keep stable.
Gallop to greatness.
Ilan Shamir
#4. Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.
Gerald Vizenor
#5. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.
Ernie Els
#6. I love working that way, and that's sort of the way that Mark, Jay, and I have been working for years, where we start with scripts that are really solid and well-written. But once we get into the scene and we start doing the work, we definitely loosen things up.
Steve Zissis
#7. Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.
John Riggins
#8. Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.
Nita Leland
#9. Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#10. If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.
Adam Duritz
#11. Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
Louise Erdrich
#12. Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.
Marc Ian Barasch
#13. You might loosen your corset strings," he advised. "It will make your journey more pleasant."
"I'm not wearing a c-corset," she said without looking at him.
"You aren't? My God." His gaze slid over her with expert assessment.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.
Megyn Kelly
#16. Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).
Anonymous
#17. And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.
Justin Cronin
#18. Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son's name I pray, amen.
Max Lucado
#19. If you're going to look back on
something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh
about it now.
Things are almost never as bad as they first seem.
Loosen up, girlfriend!
James Patterson
#20. Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.
Carol Shields
#21. Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.
Gillian Flynn
#23. If I know there is potential good hidden within each chaotic situation, I can loosen my grip on control.
Lysa TerKeurst
#24. Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably.
She blinked.
"Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?
Anya Wylde
#25. I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.
Kevin Shields
#26. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
Dawna Markova
#27. To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
Zadie Smith
#28. When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."
Andy Stanley
#29. But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we're certain their life cycles have long since been extinguished. How long will it take for my own roots to loosen their grip?
Allison Winn Scotch
#30. When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.
Bill Maher
#31. What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.
Susan Scott
#32. Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier ...
Emilie Autumn
#33. Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The
William Thrasher
#34. Finally, he set her down gently on the ground.
But he didn't loosen his hold. Instead, he pulled her even closer, and before Clarke had time to catch her breath, his lips were on hers.
Kass Morgan
#35. This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.
Tom O'Connor
#36. When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.
Abhijit Naskar
#37. If my Spreadeagles Wasn't so Tight I'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of Maggiestraps ...
James Joyce
#38. As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
Helen Fisher
#39. And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,
Since the world can in no way answer our craving,
I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.
Li Bai
#40. Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity ...
Lama Surya Das
#41. Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
Jerry Della Femina
#42. Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
Mother Teresa
#43. We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
Tom Daschle
#44. Come on get higher,
Loosen my lips ...
Faith and desire and the swing of your hips
Just pull me down hard,
and drown me in love ..
Matt Nathanson
#45. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.
Robin Hobb
#46. Fragmenting and colliding both hegemonic and oppositional codes, my goal is to reinscribe validity as a way that uses the antifoundational problematic to loosen the master code of positivism that continues to shape even postpositivism
Patti Lather
#47. Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top ... (as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad ... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)
Florie Jo Alicer
#48. There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat
Terry Southern
#49. I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying.
W. D. Snodgrass
#50. They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#51. Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then ... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.
Carl Sandburg
#52. Some families have secrets buried so deep, they're the only thing holding the roots in the ground. You dig up those secrets, you loosen the soil, weakening the tree.
Ni'chelle Genovese
#53. Loosen up, " Mr. Keene said again. "Most of your trouble, Eddie, comes from being so tight and stiff all the time. Take your asthma, for instance. Look here.
Stephen King
#55. I felt like looking at the season to this point, we probably hadn't taken enough shots downfield to loosen thing up, ... It does serve a purpose even if you don't hit it. There's nothing that will get a cornerback to back off a little bit than knowing he got beat even if you hit it or not.
Mark Richt
#56. Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
Melody Beattie
#57. Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.
Zicheng Hong
#58. People are so sensitive, people are so defensive. I agree with you. We have to learn to loosen up, lighten up, and laugh a little bit.
Ainsley Earhardt
#59. I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?
Robert Jeffress
#60. I held her shoulder blades, caressing the grooves of her ribs, scooping her in my arms and feeling her tense muscles loosen up. She was indeed a dirty martini with a twist.
Kavipriya Moorthy
#61. He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don't leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he'll Google him. Sure
Alan Moore
#62. Come to me now and loosen me
from blunt agony. Labor
and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me
and be my ally.
Sappho
#63. It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#64. There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.
Emile Peynaud
#65. Harper unlocked a drawer in his desk and removed a bottle of Vat 69 whiskey and two shot glasses. He uncorked the bottle while explaining that policy permitted him to give each crewman a shot to loosen his tongue before reviewing a tough mission.
Adam Makos
#66. When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.
Frederick Lenz
#67. You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat.
Jaclyn Dolamore
#68. I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and strive to clear the path for them; and always, they must pay attention to and engage with anything that creates fear.
Ed Catmull
#69. Life is a hard thing that presses us too tightly, forever hurting our souls. Upon feeling those restraints loosen for a moment, one can experience clear-sighted pleasures.
Marcel Proust
#70. If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#71. I'll loosen the ropes a bit if you'll be still," Roland told her. "Suck shit out my ass, mahfah!" "I don't understand if that means yes or no.
Stephen King
#72. All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.
Neal Shusterman
#73. My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.
Joan Rivers
#74. Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.
Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne
#75. I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met.
Peter Berg
#76. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.
Paul Harding
#77. I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. "No, don't let go of me," he says.
Suzanne Collins
#78. I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.
Matt Berninger
#79. Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.
David Abram
#80. The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities for humans to release 'deadwood' and anything needing to be swept away.
Doreen Virtue
#81. This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.
Rachel
#82. Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means.
David Malouf
#83. back, trying to get him to loosen up. Frank stepped
Greg Enslen
#84. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
Sam Walton
#85. I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.
Joe Perry
#86. I'm a big guy so I have to keep my muscles loose. So I do a lot of stretching before the game. I'll do about 10-15 minutes of yoga just to loosen up my body, get warm and get ready to play.
DeAndre Jordan
#87. Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.
Dov Davidoff
#88. His mouth moved up to my ear. "Let me stroke you, swear to the gods, sweets, you loosen up just a hint, I'll make you come so hard you'll think you've exploded.
Kristen Ashley
#89. Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
Sam Walton
#90. I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
El DeBarge
#91. Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?
Caitlin Moran
#92. When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
Jerry Saltz
#93. Trying to attack Hegel's ideas from the inside is like trying to loosen the hangman's rope by tugging at the noose.
Nigel Hems
#94. I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.
Julia Leigh
#95. When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.
James Dashner
#96. Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way ... it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are.
David Simon
#98. Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Irvin D. Yalom
#99. Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.
Leah Busque
#100. When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip - fear ceases to be fear.
Gulzar
