Darling Quotes - Page 12

• For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sea, Acting, Actors

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• I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

  Tallulah Bankhead

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• "Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!

  Susie Bright

  Hate, Kids, Gender Bias

  "Nothing But the Girl" by Susie Bright, (Introduction), 1996.

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• This woman [Lena Dunham] makes up being raped or something at Oberlin College and then she did commercials for Hillary [Clinton] so she's a darling, she ran that TV show at HBO. HBO's a left-wing enclave. It's worshiped. And so she benefits from that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Hbo, Tv Shows

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, People, Leader

  Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (2011). “Voices of a People's History of the United States”, p.484, Seven Stories Press

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• Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

  Kevin Leman

  Teenager, Argument, Setups

  Kevin Leman (2011). “Have a New Teenager by Friday: From Mouthy and Moody to Respectful and Responsible in 5 Days”, p.135, Baker Books

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• For you maybe I'm a fool but it's fun. People say you rule me with one wave of your hand. Darling, it's grand, they just don't understand.

  Leo Robin

  Fun, Hands, People

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• One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

  "Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess". Book by Rudolf Höss, p. 150, 2000.

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• Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'

  Tom Deacon

  Girl, Eggs, People

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• For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'

  Natalia Tena

  Cutting, Hair, Age

  "‘Harry Potter’ countdown: Natalia Tena weighs in on Tonks’ mullet". Interview with Denise Martin, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 9, 2009.

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• No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Regret, Sunset

  Katherine Mansfield, Ian Alistair Gordon (1974). “Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Men, Discovery

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• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Stubborn

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Enough of self, that darling luscious theme,
  O'er which philosophers in raptures dream;
  Of which with seeming disregard they write
  Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.

  Charles Churchill

  Dream, Writing, Self

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.163

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• It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Sight, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.97

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• Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Nature, Children

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218

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• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Names, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

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• Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

  Elvis Presley

  Romantic, Dream, Love You

  'Love Me Tender' (1956 song; with Vera Matson)

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• Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.

  Alicia Keys

  Sex, Confused, Loving You

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• You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

  Regina Spektor

  Fun, Hate, Fall

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Inspiration, Vegetables, Water

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• The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

  Jane Smiley

  Brother, Sibling, Sister In Law

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

  Thorsten Heins

  Mature, Advisable

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• 'Life is a journey, Frannie darling,' Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
  As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.

  Lorraine Heath

  Life, Soulmate, Journey

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