Bracing Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet. — Henry David Thoreau
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it. — Henry David Thoreau
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy,… — Sarah Orne Jewett
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to… — Karen Thompson Walker
The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard… — Martin Amis
I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the tips… — Sarah Dessen
What about your freedom?" he whispered in her ear over a minute later, bracing his hands palms down on the wall beside her head. He… — Nalini Singh
Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing… — Trenton Lee Stewart
I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has… — Billy Graham
It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing… — P.G. Wodehouse
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels… — Mark Twain
My body melts into his hard one until his strong arm, coiled around my small waist, is all that hols me upright. I don't know… — Katy Evans
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is… — John Clute
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as… — Paul Di Filippo
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: If you know… — David C McCullough
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to… — William C Doane
'The Founding Fathers established a nation under God; Ruled not by arbitrary decrees of Kings or whims, of entrenched elites but by the consent of… — Andrew Guzaldo
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free… — George F Will

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