Quotes about sob (16 Quotes)



    People have always said I was a tough player. But that kid's a tough SOB, I tell you what. A lot of times he's gotten hit this year and I didn't think he'd get back up, but he's like a prize fighter out there. He gets knocked down, he gets right back up. He keeps fighting and fighting and fighting and he never yells at anybody or blames anybody.

    At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.







    Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.



    In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.


    We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find Lo as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

    Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma showed exceptional emotional versatility, working a crossword puzzle during the hearing and then choking back a sob during a prosaic statement about partisanship, ... It was the biggest Senate choke-up since Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, cried while opposing the nomination of the ambassador to the United Nations (John Bolton) - and Coburn has to get through three more days of hearings.




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