Quotes About Stiffening

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

never could see what was so disgraceful about 'stiffening in a rented house,' as Eliot wrote. Do you croak better on your own property?

From it is woven all material of your world and mine. If you consider the wires again, then you could view them as solidified emotion, woven together, however with a strong cohesive and stiffening power of the intellect. With feeling alone, although it is the basis, you would have an inconsistent, very precarious framework. Reason is the form that disciplines and upholds these frameworks.

With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on.