Stiffest Quotes

#1. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee

#2. Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering furure, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

Herman Melville

#3. She'd also prepared by wearing her hair combed back severely from her face, and putting on her stiffest, highestcollared business suit. She all but carried a riding crop.

Suzanne Brockmann

#4. The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#5. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Steve Stockman

#6. My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#7. How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

John Green

#8. There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#9. Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip.

Samuel R. Delany

#10. Zander, you're getting me all wet and gooey," she squealed.
He laughed again as he plopped her on the bed. "And I've just started.

Paige Tyler

#11. Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During

John Steinbeck

#12. When you have discovered disappointment as the guide to yourself, you will be eager to learn how much you are disappointed about yourself: about

Pascal Mercier

#13. There is no greater terror than the fear of death. But, as a Christian, you are learning to die daily. Thus, when the actual time comes for your spirit to leave your body, you will have already gained the victory over its sting.

Alicia A. Willis

#14. Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#16. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Ilona Andrews

#17. You, too, are loved by the Lord, just as were the disciples of old. You are loved more than you will ever know. He wants you to be successful in your life's mission! You don't have to face the experiences of this life alone, nor have you been sent here to fail.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#18. If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

William Fitzsimmons

#19. The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Terence McKenna

#20. I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Anne Sullivan

#21. Tragedies have a way of waking us up to what is truly important.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell