Tightly Quotes

267 Tightly quotes by 223 unique authors

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the… — Michelle Alexander
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go. — M. J. Ryan
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn… — Jon Pareles
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love… — Tullian Tchividjian
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently… — A.C. Grayling
Don't just reach for the stars. Grab a hold of one, grasp it tightly, and pull it into your heart and soul. — Robert Cheeke
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest… — Brian Dyson
You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes. I even laughed… — Karen Marie Moning
The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in… — John C. Lilly
Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out. — Laozi
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into… — John Irving
Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark. — Beth Moore
No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily… — Ronald Reagan
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if… — Stacey D'Erasmo
As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may… — Russell M. Nelson
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not… — Georgette Heyer
Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess. — Phil Callaway
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted… — Alistair Begg
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut. — Max Beckmann
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts. — Elwyn Brooks White
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist,… — Giambattista Valli
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he… — Herb Caen
Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a… — James Vila Blake

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