Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.
Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
Take eloquence and wring its neck.
Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.
I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.
I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know. " Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.
I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2. 8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.
Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
I can wrap my legs around my neck.
You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.
She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.
And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened.