Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
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We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee
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Women are amazing lovers.
Omari Hardwick
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
Vicki Lawrence
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
Nancy Sinatra
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I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!
Lisa Edelstein
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Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
Anthony Hope
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
Van Morrison
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Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.
Colleen McCullough
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Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
Heraclitus
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
Plato
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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
Plato
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
Sophocles
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
William Shakespeare
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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
Kate Morton
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
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She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
Nick Bantock
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Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.
Sherman Alexie
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Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
Nuala O'Faolain