Quotes of: Old-testament Keyword

Finally, mercifully, the spasms subsided, as the old man’s head lolled back, his mouth hanging open, taking in deep, ragged breaths of stale, recirculated air.

Small Things

Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.

The Son of Tarzan

And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.

Second Verse

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

The Shadow of the Wind

Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

These Strange Ashes

I hate not talking to you, I hate not bickering like we're an old married couple and I hate not spending every day right next to you. -- Chase

Taking Chances

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

After the launch phase, your product is old news. Take advantage of the opportunity to generate interest when your product is new.

Optimal Product Process

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

The Oathbound

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take care of ourselves.

Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

Old Ways

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Old Man's War

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

One and a Half Wife

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

Old Man's War

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...

Past Imperfect

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

Please Look After Mom

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin.

The Passport

That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.

Paper Towns

Next door I could hear the old man’s soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat.

Pumpkin Teeth

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

The Queen of the Damned