Fold Quotations

I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.

I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.

I'm a boots girl. The most I've ever spent on clothing is a pair of Ralph Lauren boots that go over the knee but can also fold down.

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

We stabilized there and showed some life. We didn't fold the tents. Offensively and defensively, we got our heads back into the game. It wasn't an 11-3 game. We're closer to them than 11-3, but there are some things we have to work on.

Until the election commission tells me I'm not a candidate, I consider myself a candidate, and I will continue campaigning like I've always campaigned. Obviously if they tell me I'm off the ballot, then I guess I sort of pack things up and fold in the tent.

We're familiar with the two teams, and it's a comfortable environment to have the two teams that we know really well. Neither one is going to fold under pressure and we are going to have to step up and take our best shot.

We actually fold the DNA into any shape that we want. So in the case of the smiley faces that I made, I actually fold the DNA into a disk, but then leave two holes for the eyes and the mouth.

We didn't totally fold it in ? I give them credit ? our guys battled. We were able to come back and make it 5-1. We had some fire and I thought maybe we'd be able to get a run going and chip away at it. It just never happened tonight.

She knows when to hold 'em, she knows when to fold 'em. She knows when to walk away. ... I just love how she's playing the game very simply and that's a total compliment.

Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.

Retief is playing great now and everybody knows it. If I play well I'll give him a match, but if not, I won't have a chance. He's not going to fold up,

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Nobody plays harder than Great Falls. Roger's team does that to everybody in the league. A lot of teams would fold their tents after what we did the first half, but not them. They were playing just as hard at the end.

Chris has a very aggressive running style, ... He has a tendency to deliver shots, but as he got older, he also knew when to go out of bounds and fold his tent.

I have a Calvin Klein travel handbag with four compartments that fold up. You can keep your tickets, passport and documents all together.

Give credit to our kids in the first half. We spotted them 14 points and they didn't fold up at all.

Give Carson credit. Their kids didn't fold down the stretch when they got behind. Their kids responded.

Fortunately we picked up no further serious injuries and a number of guys came back into the fold to strengthen the squad.

If we were going to fold our tents, that was a time to do it, but we didn't. We stepped up when our backs were against the wall. Our defense did a good job of keeping them out of the end zone.

He has really matured. We call him Kenny Rogers. He knows when to fold them and hold them. He has done a nice job down the stretch." ()

We are extremely pleased to have a player with Milt's experience and ability back in the fold for another year,

Knights management is very excited about having Jamel, Logan, Ricky, David, and Eugene in the fold for this upcoming season.

I thought, considering we only have two returners from last season (Kari Rodgers and Cassie Sowers), they really stepped up and didn't fold under pressure, ... That says a lot for the girls who are young and don't have much experience.

I think by the time we get to Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll fold up our tents until we see how the world does on Leap Day on February 29.

I think the threat of potential copyright suits by Hollywood and the recording industry makes it difficult for new businesses to compete. Small businesses simply won't bother to enter the fray or will fold at the first threat of a suit even when what they are doing is legal.

Physically, I couldn't fold myself into a gray, invisible bank clerk. I just thought, It's the most amazing part. It's a pity that I'm wrong for it.

I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

I was excited by what I felt could plausibly, hopefully be the melding of the dance and the music. I was excited to fold the musicians into the movement.

John Lewis said that if he didn't reach a critical mass in recruiting technicians, he would fold his tent and go away. I'm waiting for that to happen.

That was enough adversity for a team without a lot of character and leadership to fold up, ... and they never did.

I was proud of our kids for (coming back). They don't fold up. They've got fight in them.

You can either fold or stand up and be counted. That attitude is inbred in all of us.

We exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge.

We had our backs against the wall, and it was a big accomplishment. It would have been easy for us to fold but I'm proud of the kids to go out and work hard.

Three months ago, Wall Street was telling Pfizer to fold up its tent and go home. Now some of the things we've been waiting for are coming.

We are absolutely thrilled to have Dan Boyle back in the fold and we are deeply appreciative of the fact that from the very beginning of negotiations, Dan bought into the concept of being willing to take less to try to keep our team together and take another run at winning the Stanley Cup.

We're not going to fold on this. It would take a lot more than what I have seen so far for me to be convinced that somebody is up to no good at the Board of Elections, but this kind of thing just adds to the perception.

We play an afternoon game with zero preparation and find a way to win the game. I was proud of our team that day. A lot of teams under those circumstances would have had several reasons to fold up their tent. They didn't do it.

The only advantage for the Bells to go to court would be if they are looking to fold their operation and want someone to blame. I have no reason to think that's the case here.

The Rattler family wanted to open up and embrace him. We want to bring him into the fold to let him know that we're behind him.

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

We worked hard to find alternative means to keep these titles viable, including moving them to other companies. However, our efforts ultimately met with no success. We felt that it was time to fold our hand and let our customers know the final outcome.

We want to knock these guys out of the playoffs. We have a good rivalry with this team and we're not going to fold up our tents and pack it up, we re going to play hard all the way through.

We're excited to have Manny back in the Thunder fold and have created opportunities for aspiring soccer players to learn the game from one of the top players, professionals, and positive role models to have come out of Minnesota. We have made a promise to the soccer community to bring the Minnesota soccer people back to the Thunder; this is another major step in fulfilling that promise.

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There are many possible directions to go from here. The current structure is folded only once. Like paper origami, it is possible to fold multiple times.

We are excited about getting a player like Lance to join our program. He went back and forth on which sport to play, but decided on football after the signing date and we are pleased that he will be in the fold this coming season. I really like what I see in him and so do all of our coaches.

We knew and Brooke knew that the divisional is not as important as next week. We just wanted her to make it through three miles and after that fold it up and focus on state. The last thing Brooke wanted to do was maximize the pain in this race with state coming up.

To hold them to 0-0 was a great effort for us. We showed a lot of character not to fold when the put the pressure on us. And to reach the semifinals after losing the first game was good for us, too.

You have 20 years to write your first record and only six months to do the next one. So people often just completely fold under the pressure. I'm much more proud of our second record than our first, so I'm happy to hear that people are responding to it well. We sort of cheated in that there were almost three years in between both records.

We will take wins, any way we can get them and as much I disliked being behind in those games, I'm very proud of our team for continuing to fight and their never-say-die attitude. It would have been very easy to fold up the tents when we were down by six, but they just kept battling. It was a courageous effort, and one that we should keep in the back of our mind the next time we're behind.

You got to give him that. It would've been easy to fold when the weather got bad but he didn't do that.

The United Nations needs U.S. leadership, but the U.S. also needs the United Nations, ... We look forward to working with you and the administration in ensuring that the U.S. is ... back in the fold with the question of arrears, behind us as we move ahead in strengthening and reshaping this organization.

I see our function as two fold - to bring art in and to help the arts that are within the community to find audiences.

I've seen so many teams give up and fold in that type of situation. I've always been proud of my team's effort and the way they fight.

I've tried to get them to understand that on the road you have to take the game. You have to win it. It's not going to be handed to you no matter what the situation is, and teams are not going to fold at home. You must take the game.

It was a little tight for our 6-foot engineer, who was sitting in the passenger seat during the driving. And you should know that the rear seats don't fold down because that is where the high-voltage batteries are placed.

The thinking is that the regular Iraqi army, the ones ... sitting out there in the desert, would fold pretty quickly. But as you move up the echelons within the Iraqi military, it becomes more difficult to predict exactly what and where things are going to break.

Right now we can either fold our tents or put it behind us and go on. We're a good team, but if we expect to keep going we have to do some things better.

Africa has 2.3 workers per 1,000 people. The Americas have 24.8 per 1,000 people. If you are a doctor in Africa, you have 10 fold (more) diseases to deal with compared to your colleagues in other regions.

A down comforter is one of the most inviting things you can add to a bedroom. I like to fold a down comforter at the end of the bed so it is plump in the middle. It adds a warm and cozy look.

Death is not the merciless that he is made out to be; he is the friend and companion, the teacher, the kindly kinsman, who takes you into his fold and clothes you with the halo of remembrance.

Archie was in the fold of all the other publishers that I was working for, and I was probably averaging one story a week from them.

That's what we were talking about as coaches after the game, the fact that we didn't fold when Kenny went down. It's great to have guards.

They've got a pattern of imposing these restrictions on themselves with great fanfare, citing principles that they want to adhere to. And then as soon as they get as much credit as they can with the public, they fold up those principles and they fold up those restrictions like a two-dollar suitcase and go home.

A lot of guys, when certain things start going south on them, they fold and give in. That youngster didn't do it. He refocused again, played even harder and did an even better job of being a leader for us.

They didn't fold when it wasn't easy. When they got close, we didn't give up.

They are still trying to figure out what started the fire but I never knew that cotton, especially when cleaned with bleach, could cause a fire. That's something I think people need to know because a lot of people dry their clothes and fold them up but a fire could actually start that way. I had never heard that before this.

You can think of it as a business card with a fold at the end.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

It was back and forth. I know at one point he was up 5-4 and then he was up 6-5. Then he lost a couple games, dropped down to 6-7 and then had to battle back. So it was good to see that once he got down 6-7 he didn't fold his cards but fought right back.

It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It's about the right to be wrong and the nature of human beings, that they need the freedom to be wrong. That they cannot be made to be better or perfect.

I told them they would make a run - now that's it - the run is over. We didn't fold up and I was proud. My kids, when they are determined and confident, it's amazing what they can do. On the flip side, when things go wrong sometimes -- but they held up.

For kids, it's best to teach them how to fold their clothes first. Kids will be able to fold their clothes at about three years old. You don't want to teach them how to put away toys first because it's difficult. Clothes are something kids wear every day, so it's easy for them to have a sense about their belongings.

It's always a time when you have a few issues and the players have enjoyed themselves but they've come back and we haven't digested all the times or looked at all the data or skin fold measurements, but they look pretty good to me.

It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.

That's one of the things coach Ryan has been trying to get through to some of my teammates - when to attack...he always says when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em. I think that's what we're still learning and still recognizing as a team, as a group.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

Nolan found his rhythm when he found his breaking ball. He didn't fold up after a tough third inning and he kept us in the game. He did a nice job.

It's tough because we dropped a gut-wrenching game against Virginia Teach the other night, and any time you lose some tight games, or three or four in a row, confidence becomes an issue. But the players came back to practice Thursday with some determined energy. Our message is that you can't fold up, and I hope they're internalizing it. It's an important mindset that if we work at it we can get over the hump here.

It will fold in everything in the community. Housing, allowable coverage, development issues ... it's going to be a public thing and 'place-based' will provide the input.

They weren't just going to fold up their tent and let us have a victory.

It's really remarkable how well Janette carried on her family's legacy by helping create the Carter Fold and what that has grown into from such humble beginnings. Thanks to the foundation she built with the Carter Fold, her family legacy lives on.

At this stage of the game we've got come out of it over .500, no question, ... Boston's rolling, the Yanks aren't going to fold and the wild card's all bunched up. We definitely need a good trip.

The last thing you want to do, if you are investing dreams, energy and money into a city edition, is to basically fold up the Web page into something nobody would recognize as being a part of Newsday.

The instructor checked me over and tried to have me fold my arms a certain way, which is hard to do for some people who are really stiff.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

The Federal Reserve's objective is two fold -- price stability and employment growth. All too often we think it's the Fed chairman's job to manage the stock market, when it's not.

I mean, it's shocking when you see how easily they fold in the media today. They don't stand their ground. You know, if they are criticized by the White House, they just fall apart. I mean, come on, toughen up, guys. It's only our Constitution and our country at stake. Let's get some spine going here.

I know there were a lot of people who thought we would fold after the All-Star break, just like last year's team did. We didn't.

I'm optimistic that we're not going to fold our tent early. But I've got to tell you also that I'm probably a couple days away from coming here and telling you that we're there. But we're well on our way.

If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.

If you try to be passive against Jake, he'll pound you. You fall asleep against Greg and he'll fold you up. You get the best of both worlds with the two of them.

Because when I get put in a corner, I'm not gonna just fold up like an accordion. I never have. I'll try to do it the right way, and be fair, but I'm gonna put everything I have into it. And if that's not enough, if it doesn't work, fine.

He's one of my few swimmers who swims his best at state. I've never seen him fold in a race.

He's meant everything. He went through a stretch of three or four games, and everybody's talking bad about him. A lot of guys, when things start going south on them, they fold and give in. That youngster didn't do it, he fought back.