Tilt Quotes - Page 4

• I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

  Tammara Webber

  Hands, Faces, Praise

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.213, Tammara Webber

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• Yes," Marcus says. "I understand that you are concerned -- that you all are concerned. You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago, and now all that you know is that they are immune to something to which you are susceptible, and that is a frightening thing. But I can assure you that there is nothing to be afraid of, as far as we are concerned." As he speaks, his head tilts and his eyebrows lift in sympathy, and I understand at once why some people like him. He makes you feel that if you just placed everything in his hands, he would take care of it.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Eyebrows, People

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• I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -

  Philippa Gregory

  Children, Love You, Kissing

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses 2-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen and The White Queen”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Long, Stories, Answers

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• I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Sarcastic, Night

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.199, Tammara Webber

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• The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

  Tom Robbins

  Cheating, Winning, Games

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.226, Bantam

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• I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.

  Oliver Stone

  Feelings, One Day, Ambitious

  Source: www.chud.com

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• When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

  Joseph Monninger

  Swim, Trout, Doe

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• a fortress against ideas and against the
  Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
  The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
  Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Crumbling

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Country, Fall, Los Angeles

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• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Revenge, Independent, Thinking

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• No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Believe, Writing, Sea

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Change, Uplifting, Hope

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• To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sweet, Love Is, Two

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• A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That's the only rule to follow if you want a happy marriage...No partnership can ever be equal.It will always be unequal, but take care it is unequal in favor of the husband. If the scales tilt in your favor, God help you, both of you.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Husband, Ninety Nine, Feet

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• I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Swimming, Fighting

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• He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you." That's why.

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Love You, Eye

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Moving, Loss

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