#stiff

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #american #american family #average #average american

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#phonetics #scheme #stiff #thing #uncertain

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. ↗

— Phoebe Cary

#keep #lip #stiff #task #though

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #been #compensated #does #healed

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. ↗

— James Joyce

#ireland #sober #stiff

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#charles #find #him #his #i

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#challenges #competition #employers #face #numerous

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #bore #i #knew #me

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#after #american #antidote #been #bin