Pinch Quotes - page 4

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. (Tamora Pierce)
Honor is something we all profess, But most of us cheat-some more, some less- An' the real test isn't the way we do When there isn't a pinch in either shoe; It's whether we're true to our best or not When the right thing's certain to hurt a lot. View quote
Edgar Guest
I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?' View quote
Heidi Klum
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat-the sky Will cave in on him by and by. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. View quote
John Locke
[(...) here is Cernan on the subject of window gazing:] You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception. View quote
Eugene Cernan
Anyway, the Shanna woman was abrasive, self-obsessed, smug-and those were her good points. Julia suspected that in a pinch the woman might also be careless, the one sin reality never forgave. View quote
Gregory Benford
What astonished me was the very low toxicity of a substance that has such very great physiological power. A little pinch, 5 mg, every day, is enough to keep a person from dying of pellagra, but it is so lacking in toxicity that ten thousand times as much can be taken without harm. View quote
Linus Pauling