Loose Quotes

997 Loose quotes by 742 unique authors

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets… — Alan Cranston
Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is… — David Starr Jordan
The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish… — Miguel de Cervantes
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;… — Heinrich Heine
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the… — Eric Hoffer
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)… — Andre Maurois
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. — Jim Harrison
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the… — Donald Knuth
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. — Bernard M. Oliver
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak.… — Lou Holtz
If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more. — Cat Stevens
The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl… — Kenneth Goff
I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.'… — Jay Roach
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the… — Chad Smith
I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose. — David Spade
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. — Ron Suskind
I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be… — Carol Vorderman
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less… — Rowan Williams
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. — Susan Faludi
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food. — Alfred Nobel

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