When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.
Quotes about chink (16 Quotes)
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.
It kind of baffles me. I don't think Siberia gets a good press anyway. It brings all sorts of connotations to mind. If they'd just allowed him to carry on with his walk, it would have allowed in a chink of light.
If he sees a chink in that armor, a crack in the door, that interview will come to a stop.
Hopefully we can exploit any chink at all and our players will raise their game as they have done in this competition and the Rangers crowd are like the proverbial extra man for us.
While Bloom's departure is not in itself disastrous for Oracle, it is yet another chink in the armor.
That first set, he steamrolled me, ... He was hitting the lines. He wasn't missing anything. But I tried not to get too down. I just looked for a little chink in the armor. In the second set, I tried to execute a little better, take it too him because defense was not doing it.
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen' I got more aid than any learning would have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
The retail numbers were really weak and the markets responded. This is the kind of market where any glitch, any chink in the armor can set us off.
Berlusconi is desperate and he's latching on to what he can to deflect attention away from the economy it's the most prominent chink in the armor. That's why he's jumped on the wiretapping scandals.
There are times when I knew people hated to come in here. And once your streak is broken there's a difference. You're invincible, but once you lose there's a little chink in the armor.
It's the chink in the armor, there's no doubt about that. Even if we had lost it (Iraq's market) for a short period of time, I don't think we would've lost it for ever.
That was a sign of a chink in our armor and nobody really realized it. We had a winning record at that point and we thought we didn't have a problem even though we got blown out. We really did, though.
The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so clouded, consumed and controlled the Republican majority over the past few years,
Campbell, however, was still alive and all he had to do was ride the huge slice of luck he received on that par four - when his approach flew the green and was a foot from being out of bounds - to chip up for a birdie and play the next six holes in one under to steal the Match Play crown. How Simple. McGinley played like a drain, the 16th being a case of muck in point. After his rival had found the bunker off the tee, McGinley responded to this chink of light to find the darkest reaches of the trees on the left. Two down with two to play and when Campbell pitched to a foot on the par-five 17th it was shake hands time for the winner and shake heads time for the loser. The 12th was crucial, ... A massive break for him that I'll never forget.