Top 1200 Stiff Neck Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair again, so softly, and then trailed across my neck and shoulder and down my back, making me shiver. I looked up. “What the heck are you doing?” “Helping you change your mind,” he whispered, and then he leaned over, tilted my chin up, and kissed me.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.

People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

Your hips get really stiff when you're stuck on a bike for several hours each day.

I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. "Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.

For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

We are the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump. And we're the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump. If you look at the Super Tuesday states, we're running neck and neck with Donald in states all across Super Tuesday.

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to get on with things.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like little children.

Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in her frenzy. Little one. She flicked out her tongue and caught him on the hand with its rough tip. He smiled. Then she arched her neck and tried to pull back, but to no avail. What's wrong? I'm stuck. You're... He could not help it;he laughed even though it hurt. The situation was too absurd.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

"Abby," he murmured, lifting a hand to curve around her neck. "I love you." A sob slipped free and she wrapped her arms around his waist. One of his hands cupped the back of her neck and cuddled her in close. As he bent around her, he whispered, "I’ve loved you so long, I can’t remember what it’s like to not love you. And I’ll go to my grave loving you. You’re my everything."

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.