Spasm Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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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
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
— Wendell Phillips
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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
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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
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
— George Steiner
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Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
— Gary Haugen
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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
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
— Erica Jong
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Next time I’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
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life is long between the desire and the spasm.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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
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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
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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
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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: