Intercourse Quotes
178 quotes by 141 authors
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Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
— Milan Kundera
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In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
— George Orwell
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What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
— Jasper Fforde
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume…
— William James
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
— Stephen Decatur
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The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.…
— John Dewey
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In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than either in himself…
— Hugh Black
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize…
— Thomas Woods
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The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting…
— Joseph P. Bradley
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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the…
— Georg Brandes
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
— Louis Agassiz
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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible beacuse there must…
— James Joyce
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.
— William Ellery Channing
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What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life,…
— William Wordsworth
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