Shaking Quotes - Page 9

• I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

  Dick York

  Summer, Chill, Middle

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• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  Queen Victoria

  Country, Men, Hands

  On Gladstone's last appointment as Prime Minister, in a letter to Lord Lansdowne, 12 August 1892

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• Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Thinking, Long Ago, Hands

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• Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

  Althea Gibson

  Queens, Hands, Long

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• I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

  Janet Suzman

  Real, Character, Blood

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• Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

  Joanna Southcott

  Night, Sheep, Joy

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

  Johnny Cash

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Song: Don't Take Your Guns To Town, Album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash, 1959

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• Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in ghosts.” “Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.” “The other half is Irish,” Cam said a touch apologetically. “Christ,” St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Half, Matter

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• At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones .

  Khaled Hosseini

  Goodbye, Tired, Heart

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• My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

  Jim Butcher

  Friday, Fun, Rip

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin Group

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• What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

  Jodi Picoult

  Voice, Giving, Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.

  Rachel Caine

  Sexy, Hate, Shoes

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• He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do to remain standing. He buried his face in my hair, his body shaking against me with the spasmodic rhythm of unrestrained sobs. It was almost more than I could bear gracefully.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hair, Half, Body

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Stray”, p.550, MIRA

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• Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head.

  Cate Tiernan

  Cute, Mom, Dad

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.39, Penguin

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• She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Thinking, Men

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.27, Villard

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• MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mtv, Games, Speak English

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.

  Charles Simic

  Thinking, Here I Am, Space

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• I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with me!" He turned on the first disk, shaking his head, then got onto the bed next to me. "Small price to pay for getting to hold your hand." I wasn't cold anymore.

  Kiersten White

  Hands, Luck, Bed

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• That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Children, Inspiration

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Ella Enchanted”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

  Jennifer Egan

  Eye, Thoughtful, Men

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.274, Anchor

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• How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —” “No, it isn’t,” said Hermione. “And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Quills, Said

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• That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Men, Emotional

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• What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breathing, Roots, Different

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 23, 2015

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• They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier." "A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her wrist. Link pushed away his plate, still covered with food. "So let me get this straight. We're gonna go down into the Tunnels and find this moon outta time with Liv's fancy watch?" "Selenometer." Liv didn't look up from copying numbers from the dials into her red notebook.

  Kami Garcia

  Notebook, Moon, Tunnels

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• I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Tears, Arms

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.259, Penguin

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