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«There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love»
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
| About:
Affection,
Love,
Men and Women,
Relationships,
Respect
| Keywords:
affection, sorts
«There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists.»
«There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving»
«Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
obviously, opposites, profound, recognized, sorts, trivialities, triviality
«The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?»
Author: Ruth Gordon
(Actress, Writer)
| Keywords:
actress, confection, confections, kiss of death, lad, practicing, sorts, sticky, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving
«Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.»
Author: William Hutchinson Murray
| Keywords:
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«Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
burst, casting, casting vote, chasms, furiously, heathens, hurry, Last Judgment, last word, rage, rein, reined, reins, sits, sorts, The Last Judgment, The Last Word, The Passions, vote in
«There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
discoveries, elevation, hypocrites, righteousness, sorts
«There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
desire to know, sorts, The Wish, various
«There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.»
Author: Robert Lynd
(Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
attracted, consecutive, flows, momentary, odd, sorts, surface of, The Amazing
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