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Rubber Band Quotes

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact
- Randa Abdel Fattah

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
- Mitch Albom

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.
- Aimee Bender

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.
- Aimee Bender

Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.
- Stephanie Bond

Anybody have any money?"
Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian."
Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band andscore! A piece of celery."
He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.
- Rick Riordan

Can we just do this?" Ray asked tightly, clinging to Zheng's already slightly elongated arm. Because Louis-Cesare wasn't the only one with a master power around here.
"Let go," Zheng told him. "I'm the rubber band; you're the spitball. And spitballs don't hold on to rubber bands."
"Die in a fire," Ray told him savagely. But he let go.
- Karen Chance

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.
- Sarah Dessen

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

That was the extent of our relationship, but I knew he used me to keep Were women from insinuating themselves into his life. My gaze landed on the fat little black book beside his phone. Apparently that didn't slow him down when it came to dating. Dang, he needed a rubber band to keep the thing shut.
- Kim Harrison

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski

I want my relationship with my girlfriend to be built on trust, not toothpicks, rubber bands, and lentil beans.
- Jarod Kintz

But will the will of the people bend like a rubber band? Or snap?
- Jarod Kintz

A rubber band is attached to a lever. Pull on the lever to increase the tension in the room.
- Jarod Kintz

If rubber bands played basketball, I'd tell them, You have to be better down the stretch.
- Jarod Kintz

Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears." She shook her head, remembering. "He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this -" She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. "But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.
- Judith Mcnaught

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair..... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.
- Rohinton Mistry

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
- Alan K Simpson

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.
- Bob Uecker

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