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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.


Havelock Ellis


#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.


Jim Bolger


#always #attracted #democracy #election #fixed

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.


Angelina Jolie


#around #be happy #being #being happy #choice

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.


Bill Brandt


#effect #enhanced #experience #grounded #hard

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.


Agnetha Faltskog


#behind #child #cut #even #feeling

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.


William Gibson


#blue eyes #certainty #directly #even #exceedingly

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?


Tommy Chong


#bush #country #felt #france #george

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.


Francis Ford Coppola


#been #courageous #ideas #instincts #just

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.


Jean Cocteau


#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.


Sigmund Freud


#believe #civilization #cost #created #exigencies