(397 quotes found)
“There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan”
C.S. Lewis
“How tall are you big boy?Six foot nine inches!Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!”
Mae West
“I'll not budge an inch.”
William Shakespeare
“He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it...”
Douglas Adams
“I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard!”
William Lloyd Garrison
“Inches make a champion.”
Vince Lombardi
“I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.”
Shelly Winters
“Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”
Larry Bird
“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”
G. K. Chesterton
“There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.”
Victor Hugo