“ The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.5K
“ How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
- 752
“ That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3K
“ Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 888
“ In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. ”
- Mordecai Richler- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. ”
- Charles Dudley Warner- Copy
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“ If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! ”
- James Connolly- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
- 253
“ Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: I said it was a good idea all along. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 2K
“ We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 3K
“ It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a "me too" attitude while impressing evokes a "so what" attitude. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Healthy fear evokes fully awakened attention and calm point in the presence of realities we cannot control. It cautions us before we dive into ocean breakers, safeguards us on narrow mountain paths with spectacular views, and makes us respectful when approaching the sacred mystery of any person… ”
- Robert C. Morris- Copy
- 729
“ When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Whatever the movements of the soul, the spirit, the sensibility that are manifested in one's work, and whether the state is one of anguish or even despair, one's art inevitably bears the sign of… this liberation, this sublimation which evokes in us a finished form. ”
- Frank Martin- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love and death. ”
- Wilson Bryan Key- Copy
- 348
“ The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
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