Sappho Quotes

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Sappho

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• It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Baby
  • Dreams
  • Version

• In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

  

  Plato
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Idea

• And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Police
  • Liberty
  • Human Propensities

• There's nothing more difficult than a line.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Difficult
  • Line

• Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Significance

• Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Violence
  • Forget

• Messi is in a different world. He is the best player in world football, without any doubt.

  

  Arjen Robben
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Messi

• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Persons
  • Mystery
  • Characteristics

• Your biggest threat is the person who knows the most about you.

  

  Susan Blommaert
  • Person
  • Knows
  • Threat

• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Emotion
  • Pieces

• It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Home
  • Small
  • Wedding

• Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Money
  • Solvency

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Existence

• I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Lucky
  • Grateful
  • Bittersweet

• Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Real
  • Food
  • Understanding

• Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

  

  Sappho
  • Sensual
  • Limbs
  • Bittersweet