Spasm Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived… — Jonathon Porritt
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm. — Aneurin Bevan
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips
And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the… — Hippocrates
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance. — Gary Haugen
Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected… — Tom Robbins
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem. — Erica Jong
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square… — Virginia Woolf
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief… — Neil Gaiman
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be,… — Douglas Adams
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
Next time Iâ€™ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
life is long between the desire and the spasm. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one… — Christopher Isherwood
Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a… — Suzanne Collins
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal… — Roberto Bolano
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence… — William James

Who Wrote These Spasm Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Spasm Quotes as follows: