Loosening Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your… — David B. Sandalow
Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of… — Erik Larson
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any… — Max Born
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. — Gary Kleck
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one… — Gary Kleck
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For… — Randy Alcorn
All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that… — Thomas Kuhn
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that… — Oliver Burkeman
When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings. — Candace Pert
This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all… — Laura Dave
The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He… — Franz Liszt
Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. — Lewis Mumford
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,… — B. H. Liddell Hart
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of… — B. H. Liddell Hart
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a… — Albert Schweitzer
God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake… — Oswald Chambers
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended… — Christopher McDougall
There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my… — Sarah Dessen
He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the… — Colum McCann
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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