Months Quotes - Page 33

• The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

  Mark Twain

  Sex, Pregnancy, Heart

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• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Wall, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hair, Two, America

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• The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friends, Eye, Fate

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

  Langston Hughes

  Death, Fall, Phones

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

  Jesse Jackson

  Kuwait, People, Matter

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• On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Party, Rights

  "Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.

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• Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Week, Better Off

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• If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

  Saul Griffith

  Rights, Two, Design

  "Built to Last". Good Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.

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• People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

  Robert Breault

  Adversity, People, Support

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• It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Children, Class, Cities

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Real, Skills, Majority

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• For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process.

  Sophie Calle

  Writing, Years, One Day

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

  E. L. Doctorow

  New York, Couple, Yellow

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Loon Lake: A Novel”, p.6, Random House

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• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Believe, Men

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• I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Six Months, Done, Painting

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• Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

  Joseph Conrad

  Fall, Past, Light

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

  Walt Whitman

  Crowds, Arms, Festivals

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.19, NYU Press

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Groups

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Children, Years, Three

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• In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

  Peter Lynch

  Summer, Three, Four

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• We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

  Harold MacMillan

  Together, Stronger, Want

  First broadcast to the nation as prime minister, London, January 17, 1957.

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• I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

  Meryl Streep

  Years, Giving, Acting

  "Meryl Streep on 'Marvin's Room'". Interview with Henri Behar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Couple, Writing, Next Week

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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