Squeezing Quotes - Page 4

• The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

  James Cameron

  Snakes, World, Forests

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• O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Sweet, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• They say the shoe can always fit, no matter whose foot it's on. These days feel like I'm squeezing in 'em. Who ever wore 'em before just wasn't thinking big enough, I'm about to leave 'em with 'em

  Drake

  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

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• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

  Scott Lynch

  Peace, Children, Night

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1253, Del Rey

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• Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Blue, Shoes, Feet

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• This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Competition, Growth, Corporations

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• He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Hands, Differences

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.25, HarperCollins UK

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• You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

  John Irving

  Nice, Hands, Knows

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

  John Dyer

  Leaving, Canvas, Sometimes

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• Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.

  Pete Sampras

  Heart, Winning, Blood

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• My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

  Shania Twain

  Voice, Anxiety, Whole Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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