#polly

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type. ↗

— Dan Savage

#i #i am #idiot #pollyanna #sort

I wouldn't give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock." "Wow. You're so humble. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#humble #seth-apollyon #alex

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much ↗

— John Gay

#love #men #polly #women #love

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.' ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#cool #i #i wish #into #kids

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. ↗

— Richard Savage

#fiction #much #part #polly #sex

Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#graham #polly #unrequited-love #villette #love

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#anyway #boat #compete #crime #find

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. ↗

— John Gay

#keeping #kissed #men #might #off

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#i #less #now #pollyanna #probably