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«To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.»

Author: Jean Anouilh (Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter) | Keywords: elbowing, elbows, plunge, roll, rolled-up, roll up, sleeves, sweat

«She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.»

Author: Henry James | Keywords: between, coursed, courses, coursing, elbowing, elbows, graceful, She, table

«It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.»

Author: George W. Bush (President) | Keywords: elbow, elbowing, quick, sharp, sharp tongue

«When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.»

Author: Jack Handy (Writer) | Keywords: elbow, elbowing, fossil, fossils, machine, riding, Riding In, stick, time machine, window

«The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.»

Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader) | Keywords: arc, arcs, bends, elbow, elbowing, justice

«Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow»

Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: daylight, elbow, elbowing, proverb, throat

«No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.»

Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: elbow, elbowing, jostle, jostled, jostling, offence, receiving

«I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.»

Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cloaks, coat, coated, coating, elbowing, elbows, hat, in love, met, passed, poor, shod, shoes, stars, The Water, water, worn, young man

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