Top 20 Ratcheted Up 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. 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
#6. Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
Chuck Jones
#7. The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
David Beckham
#8. After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
Ann Hood
#9. When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.
Billy Connolly
#10. Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.
Jerry Stahl
#12. A change of attitude is the one change that changes everything
Toni Sorenson
#13. At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.
Joshua Waitzkin
#14. Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
Laozi
#15. Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
Anne Fortier
#16. Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.
Kellie Elmore
#18. It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
Iain Sinclair
#19. I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.
Jef I. Richards
#20. Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.
Ivanka Trump
