Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.


Edith Clara Summerskill

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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
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MICHAEL DUNNE
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
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We have heard a lot about Edith Clement. What about this Edith Jones?
JOHN GIBSON
I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
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In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al...
ARCHIE BUNKER
She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But...
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Edith, stifle yourself!
NORMAN LEAR
I was working my way into Edith Head's department.
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CLARA
We were not even citizens of Santa Clara.
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.
MICHAEL DIRDA
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
ESPERANZA SPALDING
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
ED BLUESTONE
The water cycle consists of three phenomena – evaporation, precipitation, and collection- which ar...
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LAURA BRANIGAN
Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.
M.C. ESCHER
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Aesthetics of Repetition II
CARL ANDRE
I chose you, Clara, and you chose me. End of story.
SHELLY CRANE
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths t...
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Fine.” He smirks at me. “Nice to meet you, Carrots,” he says, looking directly at my hair. “...
CYNTHIA HAND
You broke me out of the grasp of a living horror when I thought all hope was gone. You gave me the o...
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I had this nagging in the back of my legs.
STEPHANIE DAVIS
Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-...
EDITH PATTOU
Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
BILL DRAYTON
Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.
M.C. ESCHER
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a li...
REGGIE JACKSON
We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.
T.F. HODGE
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ANUJ SOMANY
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEIN
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are nec...
G. WILHELM LEIBNIZ
...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
ORHAN PAMUK
I didn’t want him to think I was nagging him,
ANTONIO BRYANT
Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprim...
JANE AUSTEN
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it).
ANTHONY ROBBINS
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are n...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitw...
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My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
VERONICA ROTH
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
It (the hat trick) is kind of a relief. It was one of the things that was really nagging me.
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No matter your form, the main thing is repetition.
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The unpalatable words that the people say to a person should not matter to him only when he is moral...
ANUJ SOMANY
Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
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Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the...
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
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One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
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Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approve...
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Repetition is tolerable in the stutterer, but very irritating in other people.
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The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS
Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging D...
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
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His name is Christian,” he calls back. “Can you believe that? We came all this way
so Clara...
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The kind of irregularities that took place do not call for a repetition of elections. Only if the ir...
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Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christiani...
CRISS JAMI
Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
EDITH WIDDER
Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ...
EDITH WIDDER
One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER
We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER
We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ...
EDITH WIDDER
In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
EDITH WIDDER
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ...
EDITH WIDDER
I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER
I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER
The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER
If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER
Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER
For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER
I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER
It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER
Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
EDITH WIDDER
We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there...
EDITH WIDDER
There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel...
EDITH WIDDER
During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON