Lifting Quotes
287 Lifting quotes by 247 unique authors
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Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because…
— Tana French
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What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing,…
— Justin Bieber
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Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the…
— Glen Duncan
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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
— James Allen
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I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the…
— Ted Hughes
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These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of…
— John Muir
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You need me, just whistle," he said as he arranged his ball cap over his eyes against the sun leaking through the frost-emptied branches. "You're…
— Kim Harrison
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One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting…
— Kami Garcia
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A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and…
— Brother Lawrence
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I'd do the lifting, but I just got a manicure. And I notice you don't have a manicure at all. Only thing noticeable about your…
— Janet Evanovich
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There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised†would be an understatement. His face…
— Veronica Roth
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You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!†doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!†But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian…
— Rick Riordan
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You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Has he come armed, then?†she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?†Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat…
— Rick Riordan
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I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat.…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Who Wrote These Lifting Quotes
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