Equals Quotes (page 24)

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• creator
• fruit
• summer

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available. Alain de Botton

• value
• nature
• fear

The source of irrational authority, on the other hand, is always power over people. This power can be physical or mental, it can be realistic or only relative in terms of the anxiety and helplessness of the person submitting to this authority. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Criticism of the authority is not only required but forbidden. Rational authority is based upon the equality of both authority and subject, which... Erich Fromm

• men
• equality
• possessed

All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas. E. M. Forster

• humorous
• energy
• equality

I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm. Judith Krantz

• equality
• old
• along

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity. Janet Evanovich

• reading
• equality
• revelations

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years? Graham Greene

• equality
• insult
• him

THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is... Edgar Allan Poe

• love
• equality
• family love

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. Alice Hoffman

• arrogant
• nature
• him

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. Mahatma Gandhi

• equality
• lovemaking
• thrills

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ... John Irving

• equality
• trying
• things

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Laurence J. Peter

• trust
• equality
• delighted

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald

• moments
• equality
• lays

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals. Dan Simmons

• disappointment
• equality
• cleared

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? Judith Butler

• personal
• emotional
• boyfriend

Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things Helen Fielding