Quotes of Stiff - somelinesforyou

“ Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? ”

- James Beattie

“ When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ I have tried so hard to do the right. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard. ”

- Robert W. Service

“ I am part man, part cyborg. You'd be surprised at the parts I've had inserted in me. Perhaps that's why I walk a little stiffly. ”

- Graham Norton

“ I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way. ”

- J. C. Penney

“ In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. ”

- Lawrence Durrell

“ Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ It was sweaty, it was tense, but it had momentum. ”

- Charles Schumer

“ Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard. ”

- Walter Hagen

“ When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! ”

- Aaliyah

“ From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul. ”

- Juvenal

“ Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ”

- Meg Greenfield

“ I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

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

- Bruce Lee

“ Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!". ”

- Phoebe Cary

“ Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement — discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. ”

- Emily Carr

“ We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. ”

- Thomas Edward Brown

“ I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job. ”

- Harry Bridges

“ A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. ”

- Phoebe Cary

“ In no social institution is the codified ritual of behavior more rigid than in funerals. Imagine the indignation if the minister altered his sermon or experimented with facial expression. Consider the shock if, at the funeral parlors, any chairs were used but those little folding yellow torture chairs with the hard seats… ”

- John Steinbeck

“ If it seeme to any that shall heare of my first carriadge that I was eyther too stiff, to Punctuall, too high, or to Prodigall, lett them Consider I was to repayre a ruynd house and to make streight that which was crooked. ”

- Thomas Roe
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