Quotes with stiff

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  • Juvenal A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Meg Greenfield Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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  • Tallulah Bankhead 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
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!
    Heavenly distensions of our throats!
    Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!
    Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Emily Carr Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carolina Herrera When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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