Petrifying Quotes

#1. I think about death, when I lie in bed and imagine disintegrating, my skin going leathery and my hair petrifying and a tree growing out of my stomach, it's a way to avoid what's right in front of me. It's a way to not be here, in the uncertainty of right now.

Lena Dunham

#2. I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Walter Savage Landor

#4. Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Worse still, it isn't actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

Bill Bryson

#6. Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Aldous Huxley

#7. As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

Holliday Grainger

#8. The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Edith Hamilton

#9. The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

Tahir Shah

#10. They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

Kevin Drum

#11. I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

David Mitchell

#12. In 732 Charles Martel, in a defining battle, defeated the Muslim armies, forcing them back behind the mountains and confining them to the Iberian Peninsula. Had Martel lost that battle, Europe would have been a very different place. It

George Friedman

#13. I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

Richard Dawkins

#14. In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

John McGraw

#15. Good luck with that pain that I bring you tonight, Liliandra. That's more luck then you gave for the pain you've brought me.

Chani Lynn Feener

#16. Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Jayne Meadows

#17. The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

Jacob Braude

#18. Life attracts life.

Paulo Coelho

#19. Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Herman Melville

#20. Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

Adam Levine

#21. Politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Roseanne Barr