Assuaged Quotes

#1. Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.

James A. Baldwin

#2. Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

Ovid

#3. It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. Now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

Sarah Waters

#5. ... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Laurie Lee

#7. Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;

Harper Lee

#8. Music has always assuaged my lacerations, brightened my hours, added glow to my little joys and given wings to my fantasy flights.

Balroop Singh

#9. What a hard thing it is to write of love! Easy enough to describe the burning brand of lust, or yearning of infatuation, that yearning that can never be assuaged. But love! There is only the word, and the knowing it.

Carolly Erickson

#10. But she realised that this was what anxiety was like - it knew no rhyme or reason; just as a fear of the dark cannot be assuaged by the pointing out that there was nothing there, anxiety could be without foundation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently ... recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

Alan Greenspan

#12. There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Horace

#13. As we talked in the half-darkness I assuaged an old unhappiness.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. My life had indeed become meaningless to me. Even lack of sleep was not a concern for me; only hunger remained a sensation worthy of articulation. Once that hunger was assuaged, I would return to my inert state.

Ashokamitran

#15. It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm

#17. The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

George R R Martin

#18. I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them.

Eve Ensler

#19. Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#20. O Liberty ... ! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#21. Cat scowled at him. Why would I say anything about you? You think the whole world's sniffing your butt?

Cinda Williams Chima

#22. Find out what you love.
Do it because you love it.
Stick with it.
Start now.

Barbara Sher

#23. ...when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.

Katherine Holubitsky

#24. She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.

Jodi Picoult

#25. When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty.

Toba Beta

#26. Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

Cate Blanchett

#27. A critical thinker is able to release their emotions and follow only the information, the facts.

Ava Young