Loosened Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow… — Charlotte Bronte
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and… — Homer
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. — Karl Kraus
I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid… — Nat Turner
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. — Emanuel Celler
I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of… — Marlena De Blasi
In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater — Pablo Neruda
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands… — Truman Capote
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins. — Hafez
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding...… — Emily Carr
I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. — Walt Whitman
At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable… — Victor Hugo
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms… — Erich Maria Remarque
Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to… — Charlaine Harris
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,… — Michael Ondaatje
Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as… — Charlaine Harris

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