Shoulders Quotes

1340 Shoulders quotes by 942 unique authors

...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,… — Margaret Atwood
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his… — Ayn Rand
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then… — Haruki Murakami
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot… — Hugh Laurie
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured… — William Golding
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a… — Gaston Leroux
Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair… — James Patterson
I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up… — Eoin Colfer
If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the… — Dean Koontz
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think… — G.A. Henty
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest… — C.S. Lewis
A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the… — George S. Patton
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. — Spider Robinson
A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real… — Steven Morrissey
Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or… — Richard Bach
Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I… — Ruth Graham
The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it… — Milan Kundera
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder… — Sarah Dessen
The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab… — Gerry Spence
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she… — Virginia Woolf

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