"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

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Source : 1968 Couples, ch.5.

John Updike

#Sex Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Enough Quotes

“The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.88, Zondervan
“When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.”
“For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.”
“My parents said that I was nine months old and would throw myself out of the crib onto the floor continually. As soon as they left the room after putting me back in they'd hear a big bump and I'd be on the floor again.”
“Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.”
“I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.”
“You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.”
“I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.”

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