Stiffening Quotes

#1. Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Edward Abbey

#2. There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. So, he's okay."
"He's doing everything else on his own but ... "
"What?"
"Part of him is still missing." The hope growing inside me shriveled. "Personally, I think its because he's been waiting for that part to come home.

Adrienne Wilder

#4. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

#5. But the heart of a man and a woman in love Can be worse than not having a heart at all Because at least if you have no heart at all It can't die when it breaks apart

Colleen Hoover

#6. I love you, Terese. I always will." Something changed. I could see it in her body language. A stiffening of the spine maybe. The best friend was slipping away. An adversary was coming to the surface.

Harlan Coben

#7. I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Doug Cooper

#8. Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo
Congealed in the dark arteries,
Old veins
That hold Glamorgan's blood.
The midnight miner in the secret seams,
Limb, life, and bread.
- Rhondda Valley

Mervyn Peake

#9. I'll try," he said, stretching his neck. "She's beautiful girl, Ryder. You're a lucky man."
"Don't tell me what I have like I don't know it," Jude said, his arms stiffening.

Nicole Williams

#10. A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

Victor Hugo

#11. Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

Winifred Holtby

#12. The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

Jonah Lehrer

#13. There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Jack Osbourne

#14. It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

Elbert Hubbard

#15. The tiny lines extending from the corners of his eyes were no illusion. He touched his cheek and felt a delicate dryness, a subtle stiffening. Weren't there also circles under his eyes, and even more lines around his mouth?

Whitley Strieber

#16. From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there
in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.

Louise J. Kaplan

#17. Oh, do not pretend you are in love with me," she said, stiffening.
"Very well," he said, stopping. "I will not pretend.

Elena Greene