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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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.
Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again
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.
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
In my stiff, brocaded gown.
With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,
I too am a rare
Pattern.
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.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of 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.
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.
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.
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
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.
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.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
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.
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.
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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.
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.
People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
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.
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.
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
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.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
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.
As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.
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.
There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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.
I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.
If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.
I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
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.
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
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.
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.
You're going to have an upset stomach. If you eat spicy stiff because you're upset, then you'll get diarrhea.
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.
Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.
One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail.