Sturdily Quotes

#1. The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

Martha Ostenso

#2. Every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite.

Mark Simpson

#3. I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

Neil Strauss

#4. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life

Henry David Thoreau

#5. It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it.

Isaac Asimov

#7. She was as sturdily made as a captain's chair, yet drew water with graceful wrists and ran dancing across the rutted road on curved white ankles.

Louise Erdrich

#8. I had to figure out what to make for myself as an artist. As a producer you make stuff for all kinds of different people. I was making beats for other artists but not for myself. It was kind of weird.

Kid Ink

#9. For a man as keen as he on getting into bed with women, keeping hidden the full enormity of his fatness was a chronic problem. Its most acute form naturally came up when someone new had to be hustled or cajoled past the point of no return. That point tended to get later and later as his belly waxed.

Kingsley Amis

#10. Basing your goals on outcomes that deeply matter to you increases your chances of attaining these objectives because of the feelings of fulfillment they inspire within you each step of the way.

Joan Sotkin

#11. Life is a weird place, what gonna happen next? No one knows and nothing is permanent here.

Rahul Rawat

#12. It was okay to give up. I'd been brave. Everyone would say so. And yet ... even as I opened a dresser drawer and figured out which things I would take with me in this hypothetical scenario, I remembered the problem. There would still be ghosts. I would still have a future.

Maureen Johnson