Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Tightened. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Tightened Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including John Donne,Herman Wouk,F Scott Fitzgerald,Tallulah Bankhead,Edith Wharton for you to enjoy and share.
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
and makes me end where I begun.
screws on the cowlings. Only a divine miracle
Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.
I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
The noose around a man's neck is tighter than that of his fists
Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.
locked his fingers on the arm of his
I boil the strings so they stretch.
I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.
Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
Your twisting is done
you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?
With knot of one, the spell's begun.
With knot of two, the spell be true.
With knot of three, the spell is free.
With knot of four, the power is stored.
With knot of five, the spell with thrive.
With knot of six, this spell I fix.
The world snapped open.
The world snapped shut.
Someone's magic was cleaving.
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.Loosen-- Sam Walton
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
over the items and he tied
screwed her courage to the sticking place
twisted her words into
Tightened jaws may be inappropriate in present therapeutic situations, but they either indicate that there is much that still needs to be expressed or that this mode of physical response has become habitual.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
adjusted the 'chief
The knots in the wood can't be untied.
The catheter has a kink," he said. Romy
If my Spreadeagles Wasn't so Tight I'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of Maggiestraps ...
There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.
Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.
On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.
I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.
I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
The bag sprang a leak. The leak had to be patched. The patch sprang a leak. The crew patched the patch. Then the bag sprang another leak. The drilling could not go on.
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
How tight are you,Hellen?If I fuck you with my fingers,will you squeeze them tight?Show me what my cock aches to feel.
rolled down. As I
Tighter than Fort Knox, baby.
Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.
Teams that are moved by great purpose become tighter still when things are tough.
Loosen up, " Mr. Keene said again. "Most of your trouble, Eddie, comes from being so tight and stiff all the time. Take your asthma, for instance. Look here.
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
A buckle an bootlaces don't buy good advice
More clench than butt cheeks.
Apply just the right amount of force - never too much, never too little.
A few minutes later they were ensconced in his landau, the canopy pulled up tight.
I was held together by one thread that was black and frayed, and the end of it was tied to Maggie. She had unwittingly pulled on it, loosening the already loose knitting until I was nothing more than a pile of tangled string, completely unraveled.
You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.
a noose will serve. Ser Alliser,
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way.
the little steel retaining pin that locks down the
The damned Were has me in knots.
Everything was tied together with thin threads of fate, and when one loosened or tightened it was surprising how impactful it could be.
Patch-work - like a swath of chain mail. He picked up a delicate curl of bronze and fitted it into place. "Done," he announced. "It's done.
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.
She tangled her words
like matted fishing lines
I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.
One moment unstuck other stuck!
steel wedge between the
I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.
The tension in here is thicker than one of Ronald McDonald's shakes.
Always tighten the cinch when you're riding down a steep trail.
O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.
Feeling unglued is really all I've ever known. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's all I'll ever be.
That was the best thing about the house. It was never finished. There was always a screw somewhere for Ove to tighten. On
He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.
Gripped her waist but
Better to dangle from strings than to be bound tight by them,
AMUN BLINKED OPEN HIS EYES. Or tried to. The action proved difficult, since his lashes felt as if they'd been glued together. And maybe they had been. If one of his friends had punked him, he was going to retaliate. With scissors.
Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.
Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
thin materials, or in conjunction with flat stitch. Twisted knot
The threads of these thoughts trailed after her throughout the rest of the day, like loose ends on a fabric, needing to either be tied into a knot or snipped away.
If we let it, unglued will allow us to become humbly and beautifully broken before Him.
Thwack. The nail drove deeper, as if Montgomery was driving it into my very heart. How hard was it to fix a loose nail? He hit it again and again, determined to set that bookshelf straight. Determined to do something right, after so much wrong.
The tension is making him practically vibrate.
Taro knelt and tightened the leather laces of his prosthetic leg. Buckles and straps kept the wood attached to his ankle.
Hold, or cut bowstrings.
into my tightest place
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
Things well fitted abide.
A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").
And here," she said. "Let me fix your tie." She tugged on his bow tie, her eyes appraising him, and he basked in it. He had left his tie crooked on purpose, just so she could straighten it.
Merry kept talking, but he lost the thread. She wandered closer. With the knots banished, she gripped the tail of the rope in her fist, making an L of her arm and winding the length around her elbow in uniform loops. Rough, rasping rope against that smooth, perfect skin. And Rob on his knees.
duct tape - real
All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
Can you feel the ties that bind us? Can you feel them tightening? Because I can, they're so tight that I can scarcely breathe.
If your
hands are tied towards
anyone who's in need of
a helping hand, let your
tangue also be tied
We are the True Knot," they responded. "What is tied may never be untied.
The clasp of the gold chain
It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.
You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on.
I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened.
Resolved to act right.
Cinch together the whole look with a wide belt" was a very popular style in the early 2000s, which we believed accentuated our curves but in reality made a generation of women look like we were wearing lumbar support braces.
A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.