Quotes About Budge

Get some sleep." He gestured toward the bed. "Take the right side. It's less lumpy." She didn't budge. "That doesn't mean I'm sleeping on the left side," he added quickly. "You can have the bed all to yourself." "Don't be so noble.

The coach could do a goat-hoof tap dance around Nico's head and the son of Hades wouldn't even budge.

My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.

Pressure can take many forms: a bribe, a threat, a manipulative appeal to trust, or a simple refusal to budge. In all these cases, the principled response is the same: invite them to state their reasoning, suggest objective criteria you think apply, and refuse to budge except on this basis. Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

Tally really didn't have the strength to explain that she'd really meant her hangover, which was sprawled in her head like an overweight cat, sullen and squishy and disinclined to budge.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

When you say that you have a policy, you are signaling that your No is not a one-time message but an ongoing practice to which you have given a lot of thought. It is a signal of resolve, a sign that you will not budge.

The only possible exception to this rule applies to those of us in Generation X, where the outnumbering Boomers refused to be budged. (Yeah, thanks for that.)