12 and three quarter inches... unyielding. This belongs to…

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are…

— Anonymous

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

— Anonymous

He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit…

— Anonymous

Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate…

— Anonymous

The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track,…

— Anonymous

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

— Anonymous

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but…

— James Davison Hunter

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

— Alain de Botton

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as…

— Alan Lightman

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

— Elizabeth Reyes

I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will…

— Barry Ptolemy

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness. "The only way I'm keeping my…

— Sylvia Day

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people…

— Catherine Keener