Snapping Point Quotes

#1. Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Abdoulaye Wade

#2. For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

Sarah Dessen

#3. Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Seymour Cray

#4. But one thing you do still gotta learn is, when it's family, Nick, there's a limit to the shit I'll eat. But there is no limit to the love I'll

Kristen Ashley

#5. George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

Aleksandar Hemon

#6. Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Robert Brady

#7. I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?

Elizabeth Taylor

#8. Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

John Clute