Ratcheted Quotes

#1. We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. What spooked him was how the lack of a barrier ratcheted up not only the physical sensation but also the pound of his heart, the inability to get air into his lungs.

Anne Calhoun

#3. Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success
painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm
is all well and good, but if you haven't become famous doing it, then did it really matter?

Sophia Dembling

#4. Johnson seemed to have a playbook memorized. He mumbled things like, "Pleasure, apply pressure, female gratification." And bent her legs to accomplish some pretty spectacular sexual Twister poses. One in particular had Dove ratcheted up like a street dancer with twenty years' experience.

Debra Anastasia

#5. Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Chuck Jones

#6. Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

D. A. Carson

#7. The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

#8. I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Jonas Gahr Store

#9. Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Thomas Couture

#10. Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov

#11. One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#12. The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

Herodotus

#13. The fascination of the abomination.

Joseph Conrad

#14. The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The LORD then said to Moses, "Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua. "Exodus 17:14

Beth Moore

#16. Don't be impatient. It's not over until God says it's over.

Joel Osteen

#17. I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

Raekwon

#18. People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

Chris Hankin

#19. The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

Philip Hammond

#20. What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Robert Scheer

#21. He's carrying his left leg, which, to be honest, is his only leg.

Steve Coppell