Top 17 Stiffening Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Oh, do not pretend you are in love with me," she said, stiffening.
"Very well," he said, stopping. "I will not pretend.
Elena Greene
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.
Winifred Holtby
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
#12. Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
Edward Abbey
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.
Jonah Lehrer
#17. 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
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