Tightly Quotes

267 quotes by 230 authors

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down… — Saul Bellow
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style… — Jello Biafra
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can… — Michael Bloomberg
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of… — Sun Tzu
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.… — Walter Benjamin
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to… — Pope Benedict XVI
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was… — Mark Twain
When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and… — Robert de Castella
Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it… — Bob Alberti
I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen… — Dani Shapiro
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the… — H. L. Mencken
Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit.. so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs. — Larry Page
Love is: Bringing a blanket when someone's asleep. Giving the last piece of food to the other person. Staying awake to listen to them when… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to… — Walt Whitman
I played Futebol de SalÃ£o for many years and it helped me to become the player I am today. There you don't have time to… — Robinho
My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think… — Rachel Held Evans
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a… — Barbara Fredrickson
Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought.… — Ben Loory
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is… — Diahann Carroll
We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It… — Rush Limbaugh

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