Erica Jong Quotes
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.Erica Jong
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
Warren Spector -
Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
Rachel Caine -
If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
Uthman ibn Affan -
You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)
Tad Williams -
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
Mahatma Gandhi -
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
Leon Trotsky
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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
Hannah Arendt -
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Jules Verne -
Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
Gautama Buddha -
What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
Carrie Jones -
I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.
Zach Braff -
I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.
William Wordsworth
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.
Honore de Balzac -
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
Erica Jong