"If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual……" — Judith Viorst
"If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too."
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42 Quotes by Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst has 42 quotes on this site.
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It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and…
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The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as…
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For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough…
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as…
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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by…
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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
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Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
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Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
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There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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