The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural… — Charles G. Dawes Copy Share Image
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another,… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“There can be bonds of real affection, she said, blinking at us ingratiatingly, under such conditions. Women united for a common end!… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“This was the hospital where they'd first met, when Lucia was so young and lovely, innocent and saucy in the same breath.… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits… — E.M. Swift-Hook Copy Share Image
I guess from my perspective, puppy love is more of an emotional crush or a platonic affection. So my best advice would… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
Having good looks is a gift yes...but that's nothing compared to the feeling when there's someone who never fails to make you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection… — Confucius Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse… I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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