Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.
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Related To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a cons... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a con... JAMES F COOPER A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a cons... JAMES F. COOPER Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a... WILLIAM GODWIN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER We should be ready for a change. DEYTH BANGER Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptica... JAMES COMEY How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in ret... KENTETSU TAKAMORI Blow for blow, you guys were right there with them. Forget the scoreboard; this is one you should ne... GENE CHEW All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and ... MICHAEL HERR He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it. PIERRE CHARRON (it) should be perfunctory in nature and should never be prohibitive. BILL MORROW It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not. CHANG-RAE LEE It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into... ISAIAH THOMAS He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. UNKNOWN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA We should never forget that all of our ancestors were once strangers here. MICHAEL CRESPI It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. RICHARD ARMOUR It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then RICHARD ARMOUR I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction betwe... ANNE ROIPHE Civility must be a natural thing; all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate... DADA BHAGWAN We should choose the right because it is right, and leave consequences with God. ELLEN G. WHITE Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appea... THOMAS PAINE I'm not saying it should be made a condition, I just think it is one of the issues that should be ta... BRUCE BAIRD Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and lis... JEROME K. JEROME Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and list... JEROME K. 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CECELIA AHERN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel... WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of ... WILLIAM MORRIS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider m... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is... CHARLES B. RANGEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should ... LEONTYNE PRICE We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' 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JOE WILLIAMS We sometimes forget that the U.S. economy is a quarter of all world demand for oil, so if it slows d... DON DRUMMOND The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content,... VIJAY SETHUPATHI The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Our compass is pointing in the right way and if it continues to point in this way, there should be n... ISRAEL SINGER We all should be wise enough not to make the same mistakes twice. We should all learn to make amends... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It were all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd to think to wed it, he is so above me. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was... NICHOLAS SPARKS Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive ... JAY WEATHERILL A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a p... DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the p... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal
consideration should stand in the way ... ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT It's very difficult - he has 10 kids all looking for him - this is not the way you should lose your ... IRMA FIERRO Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, t... JOHANN K. LAVATER Is the caterpillar Living The Dream before it turns into a butterfly; we should all believe the priv... SCOTTIE SOMERS We should ask more of our leaders. We should ask more of our Student Government, and we should ask m... JARED HERNANDEZ The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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FORSTER Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. E. M. FORSTER We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. E. M. FORSTER The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in... E. M. FORSTER Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. E. M. FORSTER Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. FORSTER Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to l... E. M. FORSTER Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. E. M. FORSTER Love is always being given where it is not required. E. M. FORSTER The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in... E. M. FORSTER Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E. M. FORSTER I'm a holy man minus the holiness. E. M. FORSTER A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ... E. M. FORSTER The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should ... E. M. FORSTER Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. E. M. FORSTER The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an... E. M. FORSTER Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. FORSTER Unless we remember we cannot understand. E. M. FORSTER We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat... E. M. FORSTER Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. FORSTER America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter... E. M. FORSTER There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d... E. M. FORSTER Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ... E. M. FORSTER Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil... E. M. FORSTER Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves... E. M. FORSTER I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people... E. M. FORSTER Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. FORSTER Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde... E. M. FORSTER Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr... E. M. FORSTER As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e... E. M. FORSTER Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t... E. M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. E. M. FORSTER