Attentions Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse… — Jane Austen
In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks,… — Paulo Coelho
Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. — Robert Breault
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of… — Andreas Vesalius
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning… — Matt Taibbi
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me… — Lady Jane Grey
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who… — Richard Francis Burton
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the… — Malcolm Forbes
A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of… — Frederick Lenz
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that… — Kim Harrison
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors… — Robert Henri
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally. — Ulysses S. Grant
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me,… — Rachel Cusk
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can… — Ralph Fiennes
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly… — Mary Wollstonecraft
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that thereâ€™s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not… — William H. Gass
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a… — Agatha Christie

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