Basic Quotes

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It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be… — Theodor Adorno
Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down… — Robert Fulghum
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera
Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing. — Ilona Andrews
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or… — Dalai Lama
The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so… — Sarah Dessen
Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm… — Chetan Bhagat
a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just… — Shulamith Firestone
I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just… — George Carlin
I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man… — Milan Kundera
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a… — Barbara Kingsolver
We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg… — Sarah Dessen
I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our… — Steve Harvey
I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed… — Nora Roberts
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction… — Terry Pratchett
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of… — Milan Kundera
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing. — Audrey Niffenegger

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