Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
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Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
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Eyes never see, Ears never hear, when you are emotional
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Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.
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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
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I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
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Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’
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I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.
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The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
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My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.
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Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.
