Infidelity Quotes - Page 11

• Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Song, Tunes

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

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• So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

  Bobby Vee

  Lying, Eye, Night

  Song: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

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• Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

  Elvis Presley

  Girl, Falling In Love, Two

  Song: Double Trouble

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• When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

  William Bell

  Two, Trying, Adultery

  Song: Tryin' To Love Two

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• But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

  David Foster Wallace

  Children, Loneliness, Divorce

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• There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

  George Eliot

  Deception, Deceit, Killing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1538, Delphi Classics

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• She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

  Bryan Adams

  Adultery, Found, Dies

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• ...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.

  Michael Shermer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Focus

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• In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

  Miroslav Volf

  People, Different, Way

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• Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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