the pants QUOTES

1 " This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today. "

2 " Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. "

― Frederick Buechner

3 " Teachers were not allowed to beat children as they did in the past, although, Mma Ramotswe reflected, there were some boys-and indeed some young men-who might have been greatly improved by moderate physical correction. The apprentices, for example: would it help if Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni resorted to physical chastisement-nothing severe, of course-but just an occasional kick in the seat of the pants while they were bending over to change a tyre or something like that? The thought made her smile. She would even offer to administer the kick herself, which she imagined might be oddly satisfying, as one of the apprentices, the one who still kept on about girls, had a largeish bottom which she thought would be quite comfortable to kick. How enjoyable it would be to creep up behind him and kick him when he was least expecting it, and then to say: Let that be a lesson! That was all one would have to say, but it would be a blow for women everywhere. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #4)

4 " I'm playing checkers while they're playing chessThey make the big moves that make me a little lessEven when I win and beat the pants off of the bestI'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess "

5 " Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It’s inevitable. "

6 " You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience.
Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiating with people who are sitting around in their underwear. "

― Julie James , Love Irresistibly (FBI/US Attorney, #4)

7 " You get a kick out of shocking the pants off me, don’t you?” I shook my head with a smirk.

He just shrugged with a playful smile, his eyes momentarily flitting toward my pants before returning to meet my gaze.

“It’s an expression,” I rolled my eyes. “Don’t tell me you aren’t familiar with it, Mr. Smarty Pants.”

“You have quite a repertoire of ‘pants’ references, don’t you? "

― M.A. George , Relativity (Proximity, #2)

8 " [D]ear...You just charmed the pants off her with that hunting trip! "

9 " Oh my god.”

He didn’t turn or say anything even though the frustration in Honor’s voice made it difficult.

“My pants are stuck. I don’t think I can get them off without some help. Jesus, wet jeans are heavy and uncooperative.”

A grin stretched across his face. “You want my help?”

She let out a deep breath. “Yes, but you have to close your eyes.”

“You going commando tonight?” he teased.

“No, but…”

He shut his eyes and turned. She took his outstretched hand and tugged him down to the ground. Once there, she helped him latch on to the bunched up denim at her thighs, he guessed. Do not peek, Bishop. Do not peek.
“But?”

“My panties are white and now see-through and there’s not a lot to them.”

“Gotcha.” There wasn’t a red-blooded man alive who wouldn’t peek. “Let’s get these off you.” He pulled, she pushed and wiggled, and he got the pants to her feet in no time.

“Thank you,” she said, a little out of breath.

“No problem.”

“Bryce!”

“What?” Christ, she had sexy legs, and the barely-there material at their juncture left little to the imagination, so his thoughts leaped to about a dozen dirty scenarios.

“Your eyes are open! "

― Robin Bielman , Blame it on the Kiss (Kisses in the Sand, #2)

10 " Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and handing it out to random strangers. Or writing a harmless little virus that makes credit counters " forget" to send a surcharge back to the bank after each purchase. Oh, sure, technically I'm supposed to give away my own money, but whatever. I'm sure Allah gets the spirit of what I'm doing here. "

11 " If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise "

12 " My mother says it can't stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we stick together. But they stand for a challenge too. It's not enough to stay in Bethesda, Maryland, and hunker down in air-conditioned houses. We promise one another that someday we'd get out in the world and figure some stuff out. "

― , The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)

13 " If something doesn’t work, try something different. Don’t go ball up, cry in a corner, and say, “Woe is me.” Kick yourself in the pants and force yourself to get on to the next alternative. "

― Amber Hurdle , The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur

14 " (The law) is like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain’t ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone’s to the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. "

― Robert Penn Warren , All the King's Men

15 " No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's to the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. "

― Robert Penn Warren , All the King's Men

16 " As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them. "

17 " The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. "

18 " Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said " I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign. "

19 " (Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. "

20 " Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. "

― Baltasar Gracián

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