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“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Mind Ideas Self Creatures Female Cat Instinct Species Defense Fancy Abortion Preservation Self Defense Predator Lives Of Others Female Mind

Book:Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

Source: Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”

People Ifs Born Husband Behavior Blame Raised Treated Live Life Fancy Apology Unattractive Born And Raised Earn Respect

Author:Germaine Greer

“Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?”

Dream Leaving Passing Passings Fancy Follow Through

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.”

Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician

“People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.”

People Mistake Fancy Making Mistakes Exception

Book:Zoe: The History of Two Lives

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.”

Opportunity Missing Regret Fancy

Book:Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff

Source: Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff

“Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.”

Thinking Done Force Imagination Mere Aids Wounds Cures Fancy Witchcraft

Author:William Cartwright

“From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.”

Mind Book Choices Reading Bears Reader Genius Labor Settling Fancy Thoughtful Delicate Idle Leafs Sweetness Perfume Secrecy Fluttering Glands Thoughtful Mind

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health to the complexion of thought be resolved into its elements. Stop there. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it.”

Giving May Body Imagination Rich Blood Elements Criticism Disappear Pursue Fancy Delicate Veins Anatomy Complexion

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.”

Hands Poetry Waiting Dark Heard Feet Mines Broken Taste Musician Contemplation Fancy Cheer Fabric Unseen Magician Palaces Fables Wands Portal Cupid Arabian

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.”

Source: The Person of Christ

“Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used”

Used Talking Seven Teeth Fancy Gaps Inches Cigarette Monocles

Author:Terry-Thomas

“The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the, old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.”

Ifs Doe Book Sometimes Kings Victory Calling Accounts Court Ill Philosopher Variety Fancy Glorious Companion Strict Sage Emperor Converses New Books Statutes

Author:John William Fletcher

“My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power, Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair; The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest The path of meeting or of parting love-- Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts Thou smil'st in throned beauty!”

Wells Heart Soul Light Joy Spirit My Own Path Influence Strange Lovers Moon Despair Worship Sick Meetings Fancy Rays Tides Solemn Parting Rapture Heart Break Hue Mingling Lovers Love

Author:Charles Robert Maturin

“In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.”

Different Fashion Wind Diversity Fancy Turbans

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“One fancies that what one loves cannot die.”

Dies Fancy One Love

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.”

Play Use Bigs Found Size Teeth Fancy Concerts Cant Mercury Mustache

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Lasts Lessons Comfortable Clever Fancy If I Could Inferiority

Author:George Eliot

“The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.”

People Writing Can Do Worst Truth Is Silly Fancy Behalf Silly People

Author:George Eliot

“Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.”

Beautiful Easy Witty Wit Setting Settings Fancy Jewels Beautiful Women Very Beautiful

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.”

Reason Degrees Madness Fancy

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!”

Children Fancy Sweetest

Author:John Milton

“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!”

Ifs Feels Should Reason Would Be Spiritual Law Understanding Memories Hell Equal Conscious Madness Fancy Anarchy Our Memories Spiritual Beings

Author:John Milton

“Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.”

Thinking Men Want Looks Bigs Sleep Yeah Checks Dirty Fancy Beyonce Want To Sleep

Author:Billie Piper

“I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.”

Firsts Class Goes On Clothes Treats Fancy Pairs Heels High Heels First Class

Author:Keri Russell

“A sense of justice is a noble fancy.”

Justice Noble Fancy

Book:Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance

Source: Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance

“everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.”

Humor Humour Fancy Rare Things

Author:Olivia Robertson

“My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.”

Years Different Real Shows Bigs Night Deals Tvs Musical My Favorite Versions Titles Fancy Hats Sequence Big Deal Bedtime Top Hats

Author:Christine Lakin

“There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.”

Ifs Dream Humor Religious Holy Ghost Fancy Prophet Rude Holy Ghost Rustic

Author:Martin Luther

“The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.”

Mean Car Investing Excellent Fancy Aircraft Refrigerators Fancy Cars

Author:Hermann Goring

“I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.”

Art Blood Involved Beats France Fancy Martial Arts Wrists

Book:The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber

Source: The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber

“Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.”

Grows Childhood Fancy

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.”

Reality Equal Fancy Description Strongest Opera Lively

Book:The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, January 1796-December 1798

Source: The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, January 1796-December 1798

“Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.”

Ifs Kind Littles Hard Done Cutting Future Corruption Honestly Flight Fancy Guts Chickens Interpretation Invites Hacking Fowl

Author:Ian Hacking

“To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.”

Way Important Important Things Fancy Express Yourself Adjusting

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.”

Talking Poverty Dinner Fancy

Book:The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.”

Problem Crazy Fancy Hotel Staying Riders Clauses

Author:Mark Ronson

“Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.”

Reason Strong Effects Mathematics Fancy Assured

Author:Nicholas Hawksmoor

“You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.”

Ifs Way Want Can Do Records Focus Dangerous One Day Studios Passing Passings Fancy Solo Restriction Do Whatever You Want

Author:Patrick Stump

“I'd love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn't need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore - but I don't know how I'd do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I'm not telling.”

Knows World Want Needs Trying Years Know How Keys Lows Fancy Hotel Radar Travel The World Low Key

Author:Zac Efron

“My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.”

Knows Writing Jobs Goal Answers Office Phones Fancy Receptionists

Author:Anchee Min

“If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.”

Ifs Knows May Youth Wounds Invisible Fancy Cheeks Arrows

Book:Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

“In maiden meditation, fancy free.”

Meditation Fancy Maidens

Author:William Shakespeare

“Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.”

Lost Longing Fancy Giddy Wavering Twelfth Night Important

Book:Twelfth Night: Third Series

Source: Twelfth Night: Third Series

“The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.”

Enough Games Successful Dare Flight Fancy Allowing Articles Clothings Reverse Competitors Jumping Thirteen

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.”

House Simple One Thing Car Boat Fancy Simple Life New Car

Author:Michael Arrington

“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.”

Feels Facts Form Turns Accepting Position Slavery Secure Experts Fancy Lifelong Fooled Specialization

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. Its endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.”

Years Father Couple Tradition Dresses Fancy Surprising Costumes Embarrassing Appearing Carried Away Endearing

Author:Pippa Middleton

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