Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's Go home and cut it let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.
Quotes about squeezed (16 Quotes)
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Snails don't walk. They slither and slide Along wet pathways Gleam and glide, Squeezed between The grasses green, Polished houses shell-like gleam.
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.
You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.
I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
failure to agree to meaningful protections against pricing abuse means competitors can be squeezed out of the market and consumers face price increases.
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.