Pinches Quotes

#1. Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

Sheryl WuDunn

#3. A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.'

Plutarch

#4. A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

Alex Flinn

#5. Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art.

William Shakespeare

#6. Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#7. We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.

George Eliot

#8. But when it comes to Michael Realm, I might be a little murderous. But just a little. He pinches his fingers together.

Suzanne Young

#9. I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.

James E. Faust

#10. Like a man who pinches himself to make sure he still has feeling, Chimen read to reassure himself that he was still alive.

Sasha Abramsky

#11. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

Franny Billingsley

#12. The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

Theodore Parker

#13. I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Miguel De Cervantes

#14. Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Never fear, spa products are here."
Grinning, she kicks off her shoes and pads over to the recliner. Squeezing in on the other side of me, she pinches my face in one hand and studies it with puckered lips.
"Kara, if you're trying to kiss me, I should warn you, I'm nothing but a heartbreaker.

Rachel Harris

#16. I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches.

Jodi Picoult

#17. Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

John F. Kennedy

#18. Though I knew I shouldn't have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

Nnedi Okorafor

#19. No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

Sholom Aleichem

#20. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung

#21. I hate to complain ... No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

Abigail Adams

#22. If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Horace

#23. One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests ... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.

Sidney Hook

#24. The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.

Deborah Blum

#25. Spike: Bloody hell, woman, you're cutting off my circulation!
Buffy: You don't have any circulation.
Spike: Well, it pinches

Joss Whedon

#26. Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

Scott Simon

#28. Tactics win battles. Strategy wins wars," I say.
"Oooo. I am Reaper. God of wolves. King of strategy." Mustang pinches my cheek. "You are just too adorable.

Pierce Brown

#29. The matrimonial shoe pinches me.

Amelia Barr

#30. I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Rihanna

#31. Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

Euripides

#32. This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament.

Robert Michael Pyle

#33. If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'

Lana Del Rey

#34. God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

Matt Chandler

#35. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)

Adrian Lamo

#36. If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

Joel Spolsky