“ I'm not a religious person. If I get close to religion it's in these moments when people faint and shudder and have orgasms with religious fervor - I don't think they're kidding. And I'm envious. ”
- David Duchovny- Copy
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“ I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It. ”
- Charles Ferguson- Copy
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“ Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. ”
- Gerard de Nerval- Copy
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“ Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion — I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more — I could be martyred for my religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ A tear that trembles for a little whileUpon the trembling eyelid, till the worldWavers within its circle like a dream,Holds more of meaning in its narrow orbThan all the distant landscape that it blurs. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
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“ Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. ”
- Robert Bridges- Copy
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“ Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life. ”
- Jack Kerouac- Copy
- 65
“ The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience… ”
- Bill Tilden- Copy
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“ Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, "Now cut that out!" That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous! ”
- Paul Little- Copy
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