Teeth Quotes - Page 26

• If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

  Bill Hybels

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  Mark Pryor

  Fighting, Wings, Nails

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• To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

  Ronald Greville

  Thinking, Luck, Maids

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• Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

  Richard J. Foster

  Falling In Love, Prayer, Real

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Germany, Tongue

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• People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

  Simon Blackburn

  Philosophical, Responsibility, Cutting

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• How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

  Valerie Martin

  Eye, Animal, Predator

  Valerie Martin (2013). “The Great Divorce”, p.39, Vintage

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• One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.

  John Michael Greer

  Hands, People, Water

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• Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

  Amy Poehler

  People, Risk, Sandwiches

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• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Matter, Bleeding

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• I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

  George Eastman

  Children, Taken, Childhood

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• I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Kindness, Writing, Dying

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• I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Law, Hair

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• Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

  Brenda Peterson

  Web Of Life, Vision, World

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• Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.

  Jon Pareles

  Guitar, Giving, Sound

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• I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

  Mark Twain

  Faults, Adults, Pills

  Mark Twain (1913). “Roughing it”

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• Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Tonight, My Heart

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

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• I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Painting, Like You

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• When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

  Priscilla Presley

  Baby, Father, Vegas

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• I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.

  Anne Lamott

  Fighting, Self, Promise

  "Borrowing Time for Bliss" by Christine Carter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Decision, Rope

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• It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

  Ellen Barkin

  Smile, Girl, Two

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• Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

  George D. Prentice

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Rose, Mouths, Said

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

  Molly Harper

  Eye, Animal, White

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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