Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith Summerskill
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH CLARA SUMMERSKILL Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths
EDITH CLARA SUMMERSKILL The Nagging Question;If as a man you are diagnosed of sexual impotence & without cure,but with a vir...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Do you know why your husband is always scared of staying at home? There is a constant war going on r...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Nagging Question; If your beloved spouse travels outside your base for a three month course & re...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The nagging question;Is it the Higher being that gives a child or a simple process invented by natur...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The nagging question; If you mistakenly impregnate your mother in-law or sister in-law,will you abor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Nagging Question;if you discover that your spouse to be is HIV positive ,or has a terminal illne...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The nagging question;Can you sacrifice one of your eyes or kidneys for the person you claim to love.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The nagging question;If a terrorist kidnaps your beloved daughter for 3yrs & releases her after then...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Nagging Question;When your beloved wife delivers a baby for you,will you with her consent conduc...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Nagging Question;If you need a new kidney via a transplant & your wife's system matches yours,bu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Nagging Question;" If you discovered that your spouse to be has a 20 inches manhood that is curv...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Nagging Question;If you discovered that your spouse to be has no vagina (a congenital abnormalit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But it may be too politically unpalatable in the U.S..
MICHAEL DUNNE Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the ec...
EDITH CLARA SUMMERSKILL Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept tab...
EDITH CLARA SUMMERSKILL Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON We have heard a lot about Edith Clement. What about this Edith Jones?
JOHN GIBSON I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al...
ARCHIE BUNKER She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But...
EDITH PATTOU Edith, stifle yourself!
NORMAN LEAR I was working my way into Edith Head's department.
GRACE VILLARREAL Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpa...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Repetition is the death of art.
ROBIN GREEN As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. BREWER When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of qua...
NELLY SACHS I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
JANET FLANNER The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.
MICHAEL DIRDA Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
ESPERANZA SPALDING Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
ED BLUESTONE The water cycle consists of three phenomena – evaporation, precipitation, and collection- which ar...
LEMONY SNICKET I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
LAURA BRANIGAN Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.
M.C. ESCHER Happiness is the longing for repetition.
MILAN KUNDERA The Aesthetics of Repetition II
CARL ANDRE When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
GEORGE SANTAYANA There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths t...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD I had this nagging in the back of my legs.
STEPHANIE DAVIS Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-...
EDITH PATTOU Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
BILL DRAYTON Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.
M.C. ESCHER A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a li...
REGGIE JACKSON We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.
T.F. HODGE The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the se...
ANUJ SOMANY This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEIN There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are nec...
G. WILHELM LEIBNIZ ...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
ORHAN PAMUK I didn’t want him to think I was nagging him,
ANTONIO BRYANT Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprim...
JANE AUSTEN It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Repetition
is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it).
ANTHONY ROBBINS There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are n...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitw...
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
VERONICA ROTH The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY It (the hat trick) is kind of a relief. It was one of the things that was really nagging me.
RICK NASH No matter your form, the main thing is repetition.
TARA KING There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The...
NEILS BOHR There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The...
NIELS BOHR There are many kinds of truth: societal truths, religious truths, fundamental truths, scientific tru...
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. I knew we were going to struggle offensively early in the spring. There's a reason pros go down and ...
JUSTIN FLEENER Edith was at the forefront of the move to modernist design that influenced architecture and furnitur...
BILL STERN Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how i...
ELEANOR CATTON The unpalatable words that the people say to a person should not matter to him only when he is moral...
ANUJ SOMANY Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
NAPOLEON HILL Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
LIU BINYAN Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently ...
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approve...
NATHANIEL COTTON Repetition is tolerable in the stutterer, but very irritating in other people.
MARIANA FULGER The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging D...
DAVE BARRY Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The kind of irregularities that took place do not call for a repetition of elections. Only if the ir...
NASSER AMIN Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christiani...
CRISS JAMI Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism
CHARMAINE SMITH LADD There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCE But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D.H. LAWRENCE much longer... There was a lot of repetition.
JEVON KEARSE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF Life gets often bitter before getting better. This is very much like taking an unpalatable herbal pi...
ANUJ SOMANY It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.
CHRIS BOSH The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
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EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't.
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EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
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yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG