Margaret Kennedy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
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One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.
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Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
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Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.
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where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.
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... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.
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It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.
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They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.
-- Margaret Kennedy
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.
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Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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