"Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect."

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Source : Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.64, Penguin

Lundy Bancroft

#Opposites Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

Source : John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA
“And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.”
“I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.”
“I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!”
“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”
“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.”
“Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.”
“The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!”

Source : John Pringle Nichol (1848). “The planet Neptune: an exposition and history”, p.90

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