(1143 quotes found)
“He doesn't speak, the newborn? Why his entire being shouts out, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" And yet at the same time, imploringly, begging, "Don't leave me! Don't leave me!" This is birth. This is the torture, the Calvary.”
Dr. Frederick Leboyer
“It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.”
Alexander Herzen
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
Henry Moore
“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple.”
Charles Lamb
“Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely capable of doing once we finally admit we're mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more: She went from Anglo to Saxon in a trice”
Florence King
“The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.”
Clive James
“They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here.”
David Diaz
“Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan”
Chris Green
“Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues”
Charlotte Bunch
“I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.”
Marlene Dietrich
