#bolt

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#better #bolts #her #maiden #own

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#back #bolt #burglar #by the time #chain

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. ↗

— Herodotus

#bolts #god #greater #greatest #his

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#i #nuts #prepared #theatre

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#elizabeth #get #i #me #nice

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#bureaus #candidate #committees #effort #favor

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#bolt #evening #key #prayer

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#exactly #him #mark #needs #picking

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#act #bolt #called #classes #distinct

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#bolt #done #fear #i #journey