Plunge Quotes - Page 12

• The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

  Mary McCarthy

  Fashion, Kissing, Clothes

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heads Or Tails, People, Going Away

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Diary entry of Tuesday, 30 January, 1938.

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• The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

  Max Lucado

  Water, Car, Risk

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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• Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Thyself

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.41

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• Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take the plunge, but when I realized it was just a direct connection to our customer and these women, I did it. I like listening to their stories and their feedback.

  Eva Mendes

  Media, Listening, Connections

  Source: wwd.com

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