Eva Figes Quotes

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

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• Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Feelings
  • Holy Spirit
  • inclinations

• If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Rules

• Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Speech
  • Rocks

• Every reader his or her book.

  

  S. R. Ranganathan
  • Book

• I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Mind
  • Industry

• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Ability
  • Requisite

• Words belong to each other.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Words

• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

  

  Euripides
  • Sea
  • Praise
  • Childless

• Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Behavior
  • Suppose
  • Trustafarian

• Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Hands
  • Read
  • Helps

• Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right?

  

  Colin Meloy
  • World
  • Dance
  • Left

• God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

  

  William Faulkner
  • God
  • Kill
  • Created

• Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Job
  • Energy

• I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

  

  Nadia Gamel
  • Dream
  • Hollywood
  • Traveled

• Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

  

  Eva Figes
  • Created
  • Submissive
  • Recognises