Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.
– Marguerite Yourcenar
Related Quotes:
- Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -” there are far too many children. – Marguerite Yourcenar
- We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear -œstaying stuck.- We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying. – Susan Jeffers
- Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin’On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe’s my virgin suicide – Jeffrey Eugenides
- You are soft person you said. But you’re soft as shit: it is very soft but stinking! – Ilze Falb
- He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless. – Jessiqua Wittman
- Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man. – Atom Tate
- Respect by fear isn’t respect… it’s fear. – Christina Engela
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-”the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, – CS Lewis
- Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within. – MingDao Deng
- God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet. – Jackie Pullinger
- Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable. – Unknown
- Respect, love, Trust; Every such things works both ways. If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. – Sandesh limbu
- Respect, love, trust; Every such thing works both ways.If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. – Sandesh Hukpachongbang
- Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect. – Lundy Bancroft
- To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. – Auliq Ice
- Respect is not delivered it is earned. If you want more respect in the world treat people with tremendous respect. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! – Rebecca McKinsey
- The song says respect yourself.But I would rather respect another and then have them respect me in return. – Anthony T Hincks
- Respect those who respect you; disrespect those who disrespect you, only then they will respect you. – John Yang aka Private
- Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet. – Bryant McGill
- Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. – Kevin James Breaux
- We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves. – JulieAnne
- Just because you are soft doesn’t mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold. – Victoria Erickson
- without presence of love -heart is virgin within vast eternity – litymunshi
- The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets. – Ellen J Barrier
- With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men. – Eyden I
- The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better. – Debasish Mridha
- I do not have silver nor gold to give you, but i have a heart of gold to keep you. – Fabulous Godwin
- There’s always Gold amongst Silver but they don’t know it and there’s always Silver amongst Gold but they don’t show it. – Goitsemang Mvula
- The fact that you are true child of God doesn’t mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control. – Karen Azinger
- If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value. – Willi Way
- Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.–Johnny quoting Robert Frost – SE Hinton
- Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
- Gold is found in the deep rough soil, so go for gold – Ikechukwu Joseph
- Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that’s put to use more gold begets. – William Shakespeare
- The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. – Marguerite Duras
- The day the Dragon chooses a male virgin instead of a female as his yearly sacrifice, the entire kingdom erupts into mass protests and anger. – Mads Sukalikar
- It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced. – Fulton J Sheen