Top 142 Loosen Quotes & Sayings

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."

Usually in the evenings, I go for a one-hour road session for a gentle recovery road ride. It's a really steady stint with the main focus being to loosen the body down.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities for humans to release 'deadwood' and anything needing to be swept away.

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

If I were to say anything to my 18-year-old self, it would be, 'Loosen up. Chill out.'

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

My dancing is definitely influenced by African house parties that loosen me up over the years when I was eight years old. Just trying to mimic my Aunties and I kind of learned the flow from there.

You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

Its nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

I`ll be so presidential that you people will be screaming loosen up president. Loosen up.

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.

People are so sensitive, people are so defensive. I agree with you. We have to learn to loosen up, lighten up, and laugh a little bit.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.