Corsetry Tight Quotes & Sayings

For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I looked inward at my heart. And indeed, there too, the criss-cross corsetry was slackened and gaping. I was all undone. Potentially, I could spill. Or tangle. And so I began to tug at my own heartstrings, pulling them up tight until there was just the right amount of tension at each criss and each cross. Then I bent down to my boots and laced them firmly too, first the left, then the right, finishing off on each side with a surgeon's shoelace knot. — Danielle Wood

Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected. — Pete Hamill

if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring. — Laura Bradford

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. — P.J. Harvey

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship. — Stefanie Powers

People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized. — Cindy Sheehan

Ideology makes people stupid. — Andrew Bacevich

One can make a joke, but one can't be one. — Duff Cooper

I try to move people emotionally. — John Debney

Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages. — Ann Coulter

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening. — Joel Kinnaman

Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have. — Michael Dobbs

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. — Isaac D'Israeli