Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.
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Related What’s wrong? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed again? MELISSA LANDERS Wayne did a great job. Sometimes when you're lying back there, you can stay out of trouble. It looks... JAY SIGNORE Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The government's approach must be more than a paper exercise couched in warm words, DAVID FROST Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head ... CASEY STENGEL Gratitude is the one who stands by your side silently when you cry than a thousand words of comfort ... KAZERONNIE MAK The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder. MARKUS ZUSAK Trust yourself more than you trust the words of others. TIFFANY L. JACKSON TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his ne... AMBROSE BIERCE I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent. AGYNESS DEYN The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name... STUART NADLER Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will alwa... ALLY CONDIE It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side ... JEFF VANDERMEER Server-side solutions could be seen as more reliable because every page view requires a log entry, b... MATT SARREL You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed. FABRICE MUAMBA People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for indi... JOHN GREEN The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight" LORI GOTTLIEB I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him?... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather ... SUSAN BLOCK A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daem... CHRIS WEITZ I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express... CHARLOTTE BRONTë They were by far the better side and wanted it more than we did. PAUL MILLAR Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all th... NEMA AL-ARABY The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs. MARY BETH WHITEHEAD They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to... EMMA CLINE He is lying on my side of the bed with a drink on the night table. I had no idea he realized teams a... CHRIS NICHOLS A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but n... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other si... DAVE GAHAN We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being c... NORMAN JEWISON Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself... BENJAMIN SPOCK “Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itse... ASHISH KUMAR If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr... STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The words may sparkle for sometime.
The words may vanish after sometime.
but what they meant will re... SWETHA PILLAI All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasi... CHANAKYA The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soake... ANITA SHREVE We are concerned about the fact that this value creation could be a risk within a larger group as it... CARLO PANUNZI Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side. KELSEY BRICKL Sometimes the difference between good and evil is simply choosing the wrong side to be on. CARL WHITE I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about t... NúRIA Añó We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side... NORMAN JEWISON A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these? TAEKE DE JONG I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words. JOE DUNTHORNE I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are... MITCH ALBOM greet him with gentle words and caresses and welcome him onto their bed, where he would curl, purrin... ERIN HUNTER When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER It's a little more bullish than I thought. I thought they would err on the side of being more conser... CHARLIE GLAVIN Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic. JAMES JOYCE Life's irony;Most ladies love the words;fashion & relationship,more than their own names. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Hundreds of harsh words dosen't give pain. But, the silence of a loving heart gives more pain VINAYAN You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves. DAVID LEVITHAN In loving, be clear on the difference between intensity and intimacy. Are you more committed to reve... DONNA M THOMAS
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MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. MICHEL FOUCAULT The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavi... MICHEL FOUCAULT When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who w... MICHEL GONDRY It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was... MICHEL MARTELLY Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clerg... MICHEL ONFRAY We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is cl... MICHEL ONFRAY It's about time that Amtrak entered the 21st century. Revenue maximization works, and as Amtrak sees... ALLEN MICHEL Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much. ALLEN MICHEL I would try to settle all the outstanding liability claims at this point in time, so that it doesn't... ALLEN MICHEL They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them ... ALLEN MICHEL When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the ris... ALLEN MICHEL They have to try to minimize each one of these risks until they finally enter the actual battle of r... ALLEN MICHEL Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too o... MICHEL ONFRAY I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitut... MICHEL ONFRAY The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st... MICHEL FOUCAULT By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife enge... MICHEL ONFRAY Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe... MICHEL FOUCAULT We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unluck... MICHEL PATINI At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rar... HARTMUT MICHEL The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, inclu... MICHEL ONFRAY My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ... MICHEL GONDRY