Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.
– Stacy Schiff
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- One passion leads to another. It’s passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. – Chloe Thurlow
- Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men’s dreams. – Stacy Schiff
- And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. – Stacy Schiff
- It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business. – Stacy Schiff
- History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy. – Stacy Schiff
- It has always been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life. – Stacy Schiff
- When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. – Stacy Schiff
- Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. – Barbara Cartland
- Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy. – John Green
- Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. – Jean de La Fontaine
- In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast. – Stewart Stafford
- It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man–almost rarer–who is great enough to see greatness and say so. – Ayn Rand
- To sleep and being able to. RareTo sleep and deserve it. Rarer. – Saleem Sharma
- I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren’t the same thing. – Maggie Stiefvater
- Knowing why you are is your purpose.Knowing who you are is your style.Knowing what you are is your character – Debasish Mridha
- She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive. – Milan Kundera
- Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. – Richard Schiff
- I don’t want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. – Peter D Schiff
- Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves – Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
- How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision. – John Crowder
- Blind minds are worst than blind eyes. That you have eyes does not mean that you have vision. Visionaries do not look they see whlie people look. – Patience Johnson
- Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight. – Kamand Kojouri
- And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. – Anonymous
- How often do we find the blind leading the not-so-blind? – Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
- To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You’ll understand me when you’re older. Then you’ll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you’re no longer yourself. – Francesca Marciano
- The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see. – Ben Midland
- War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk. – Anthony Doerr
- Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity. – Subhan Zein
- Trust had become a commodity that few could afford. – Kimberly Derting
- In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. – Tom Szaky
- It’s a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity. – Brian W Aldiss
- Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity – Bernard Kelvin Clive
- In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday. – Changrae Lee
- Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it’s the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
- You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself. – Bryant McGill
- She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls. – Lauren DeStefano
- Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited. – Sunday Adelaja
- The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention. – Phil Cooke