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Letter "A" » arouses
«Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.»
«A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
| About:
Power,
Strength,
Tenderness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
arouses, conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, instantly, tenderness, touchstone, touchstones
«There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
arouses, bond, diabolical, dominion, grasses, inquisitor, returns, the Dominion, The Inquisitor, torture, transport, transported, transporting, transports, visions
«Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.»
«Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Cannibalism
| Keywords:
arouses, babies, Buddhist, Buddhists, cannibalism, disgust, feed, feed on, impression, strongly, Vegetarians
«Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
arouses, clang, clanging, trumpet, trumpeting
«Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Misfortune
| Keywords:
arouses, arousing, ceases, especially, excite, irritation, irritations, misfortune, pity, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, recited, recites, reciting, the point, to the point
«Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
arouses, bastard, chase, cop, cop out, dealing, highway, panic, psychology, pull over, speeder, traffic, traffic cop
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