Quotes of Shaking - somelinesforyou

“ Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth… ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and shrinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. ”

- James Thomson

“ Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing; I sat, but neither heard nor saw. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Palsied eld. - Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ”

- Charles C. West

“ My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. ”

- Brian Wilson

“ I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ Love is trembling happiness. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over. ”

- Sam Slick

“ I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too. ”

- Laurell K. Hamilton

“ I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ”

- Louise Nevelson

“ I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME. ”

- Shirley MacLaine

“ An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work. ”

- George Washington

“ A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain. ”

- Llewelyn Powers

“ He who wanteth patience is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because everyone can strike him, and he can strike none. ”

- Horace Smith

“ Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows. ”

- Herman Hesse

“ The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. ”

- Alfred Tennyson

“ I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing. ”

- Fanny Fern

“ I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. ”

- Richard Wagner

“ When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. ”

- Bible

“ Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. ”

- Lou Henry Hoover

“ Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. ”

- George Sand

“ When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands. ”

- H. L. Mencken
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