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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.


Timothy Radcliffe


#beauty #celibacy #even #having #humanity

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.


Norman Rockwell


#back #course #critics #get #i

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.


Jean Kerr


#admiring #always #been #buying #else

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.


Zoe Saldana


#admiring #always #anything #filmmakers #get

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.


Christian Morgenstern


#admiring #art #being #child #hidden

Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides..., " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.


Gail Carriger


#flirting #infatuation #love #love

I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don't know. I understood the enormous risk of telling the truth, how the telling could result in every level of hell reigning down on you, your skin scorched to the bone and then bone to ash and then nothing but a lingering odour of shame and decomposition, but now I was also beginning to understand the new and alien feeling of taking the risk and having the person on the other end of the telling, the listener, say: Bad shit at home? You guys are running away? Yeah, I said. I understand, said, Noehmi.


Miriam Toews


#feeling #irma-voth #life #literature #miriam-toews

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.


Arthur Smith


#each #else #entertaining #little #more

Katar," said Britta, "I thought you would want to stay with your friends from home while they were here, so I had your things moved from your room in the delegates' wing." "You can have my things brought in too," said Peder, throwing himself onto the nearest bed. He sighed as he sank into the soft mattress and rolled onto his side. "Um... I don't think boys are-" Britta began. "Don't you mind me!" Peder pulled a blanket over his head. Miri didn't know how he could even pretend to fall asleep. She could barely keep from pacing. "Don't worry, Britta," said Esa. "We'll kick him out before night. Off to your fancy apprenticeship, big brother." She nudged Peder's shape under the blanket. Peder made an exaggerated snoring noise.


Shannon Hale


#esa #hale #humor #katar #miri

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.


Walter Bagehot


#critic #cure #go #house #institutions