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«If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
conditions, holder, Holders, in reply, I Love You, pistol, pistols, pointed, replies, reply, requires, Somebody to Love
«And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here»
«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
«Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.»
«Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
| About:
Courtship
| Keywords:
alarm, attentions, courtship, pointed, vague
«Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
bullets, pointed, Speeches
«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
battlement, battlements, castle, clash, clung, crumbled, crumbling, jagged, knots, massive, mournfully, pointed, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds, revelry, roofless, sea green, seven hundred, seven seas, The Clash, towers, tower of strength, weed
«I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
ahead, asked, as well, As You, fellow, fellow traveller, myself, pointed, teacher, traveller
«A good orator is pointed and impassioned.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
impassioned, orator, pointed
«During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
conference, conferences, declared, Marxist, Marxists, my first, openly, pointed, press conference, publicly, soviet
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