Erica Jong Quotes

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

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• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • History
  • Spanish
  • France

• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Lesson

• There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Style
  • Flesh
  • Purity

• People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Lesson
  • Bear

• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Control
  • Beginning

• The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Change
  • Lesson
  • Winds

• Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Lesson
  • Bashfulness
  • Matron`s

• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Firsts
  • Flesh
  • Would Be

• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Work
  • God
  • Heaven

• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Unhappy

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Destroy

• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • History
  • Financial

• We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies

  

  John Britton
  • Trying
  • Impact
  • Products

• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Men
  • Remains

• There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Feels

• I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Writing
  • Done

• I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fire

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Lesson
  • Flesh