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The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests,...
RICHARD DAWKINS Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
TERRY PRATCHETT Can I ask you something personal?”

Six inches but I tell everyone eight.
JOHN BARNES Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
BARBARA DEMICK [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie ...
SAM HARRIS I'm providing a new mechanism that may or may not be true, but it's very suggestive and deserves fur...
ADAM BURROWS It's highly suggestive in various ways.
PETER GURALNICK We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.
BILL HALEY from: The Portrayal of Child Sexual Assault in Introductory Psychology Textbooks - Elizabeth J. Leto...
MICHELLE R. HEBL We are not proving anything. But the results are certainly suggestive.
KAYE FILLMORE Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
AARON LEVENSTEIN We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or...
STAN LAUREL Statistics is like a Bikini; what is revealed is suggestive, but what is concealed is vital.
UNKNOWN Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
AARON LEVENSTEIN Loftus was asked to be an expert witness because the idea of memories as formed through a manipulabl...
JANICE DOANE Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the a...
GEORGE SZELL An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
WILLIAM JAMES Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the ...
GEORGE SZELL Like it or not, there is a very high threshold for what is 'crossing the line' in terms of being ove...
MICHAEL WOOD Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that...
BARRY LONG Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she ...
HENRY PETROSKI I'm not in true period costume. But the costumes are suggestive of the period.
ROBERT EVAN Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To...
HAMISH BOWLES When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways sug...
PETER SINGER It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies an...
AGNES REPPLIER You cease to be wise or intelligent when your beliefs are false.
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that cre...
WAYNE DYER Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's fi...
LAUREN SLATER I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs o...
PETE SEEGER You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental p...
ROBERT COLLIER You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental p...
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...
AYN RAND Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofs...
VALERIE SINASON The tea-bag is a vile invention suggestive to my perhaps overly squeamish eye of something a careles...
JOHN BANVILLE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I’d love to be tried out,’ I said, with a suggestive smile. ‘One should always explore somethi...
FIONA THRUST My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these througho...
WADADA LEO SMITH Probably... or maybe... one day!
DEYTH BANGER This commercial is basically soft-core porn, ... The way she moves, the way she puts her finger in h...
MELISSA CALDWELL The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It ...
JOHN PIPER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a sta...
JOHN UPDIKE Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
TONY ROBBINS Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespre...
ANTHONY DE MELLO There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespre...
ANTHONY MELLO Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that t...
HOPE BRADFORD Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing f...
ALAN DUNDES Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But t...
MARY MACLANE True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt a...
R. D. LAING Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most im...
JONATHAN MILLER Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied wit...
MARQUIS DE SADE ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied...
MARQUIS DE SADE Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are thi...
AMANDA BOUCHET No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
BRENDAN MYERS Intergenerational travel is very popular. Many families are using a 70th birthday or a 75th or a 40t...
KATHY SUDEIKIS A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulate...
CRISS JAMI The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is a...
JENKIN LLOYD JONES It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or...
SHANNON L. ALDER Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has bee...
ANTHONY ROBBINS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI 'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be sat...
MARQUIS DE SADE Claire tipped her head back, and this time he found her lips. It was, she thought, supposed to be a ...
RACHEL CAINE When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.
DEBASISH MRIDHA History has always done enough of praise for MOM; it is time to raise our living standards to gracef...
ANUJ SOMANY If you have been giving people the opportunities to be themselves, you won't talk of chances.
APURVA GAGLANI Truth or Dare ? Dare! Love me Back!
ANSHUL SRIVASTAVA Stupids enjoy life the most for they can never realize the value of the precious things lost & the l...
ANUJ SOMANY Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas...
ANUJ SOMANY A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend mos...
ANUJ SOMANY Concieving a child after treatment from doctors may involve using crooked means by one of the family...
APURVA GAGLANI When a sensible quote is adored a lot by many or most people on a person’s INDIVIDUAL social media...
ANUJ SOMANY A word or music that flows from the soul magically touches the heart of one and all.
ANUJ SOMANY The level of sadness and not happiness increases in a person’s life as his/her awareness rises abo...
ANUJ SOMANY Be a voice Voice your opinions Voice your thoughts Voice your displeasure Voice your feelings Voice ...
APURVA GAGLANI Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te...
APURVA GAGLANI The staircase is a firm footing, the lift is a hanging platform. Wonder why so many people prefer th...
APURVA GAGLANI Are you climbing a mountain, or digging a hole.
KENT POLLON For a childless couple who follow truth and are honest they are very few options to get a baby. 1 Th...
APURVA GAGLANI We are—or were—Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beli...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT People often extending their support to a person forms a comprehensive report about his or her level...
ANUJ SOMANY A learned person underrates own intelligence & overvalues others importance, so remains in public la...
ANUJ SOMANY The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on...
ANUJ SOMANY There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re...
ANUJ SOMANY A wise does not have necessarily nice words but always good in intention; a wicked may have regularl...
ANUJ SOMANY BETTER to be loved by just one person who is truly the BEST to trust than being mischievously liked ...
ANUJ SOMANY It is always difficult for an emotional person to choose an option between the job and the business ...
ANUJ SOMANY A person who is humanitarian by soul has a great scope of becoming a true comedian, but let remember...
ANUJ SOMANY Live or die, don't hang in between.
NEHA KOTHARI The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so common amongst the common people of an ordinary mind to find own selfish desire as dream an...
ANUJ SOMANY A good person has voice gives voice. A bad person has noise makes noise
APURVA GAGLANI Our findings not only support the hypothesis that vascular factors contribute to dementia in the eld...
AART SPILT It’s not reality that creates your beliefs, it’s your beliefs that create reality.
STEVEN AITCHISON To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS At the Super Bowl, when Beyonce was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someo...
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life.
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ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti...
ELIZABETH DREW Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Don
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE