Paroxysm In Quotes

#1. I would have appreciated the satisfaction of a carnal paroxysm - in my experience, they bring a sparkle to the eye as well as brightness to the complexion and a spring to the step - but using Stoker to achieve that end was a means I could not begin to contemplate.

Deanna Raybourn

#2. I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

Carlo Rubbia

#4. Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

James A. Moore

#5. Being pretty is its own paroxysm.

Justine Monikue

#6. I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

Rex Stout

#7. But this bus was a bit too full. The driver only appeared to control the glass and metal around him. In reality, he was at the nose of a travelling paroxysm.

Graham Spaid

#8. Every artist that becomes famous has a team, and needs to convince someone to believe in them enough to have others rally around them to achieve stardom. If I can be that person, then I am happy to do it.

Wendy Starland

#9. And just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.

James Herriot

#10. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Giorgio Moroder

#11. I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

China Machado

#12. If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus.

Dave Jacobs

#13. Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Hippocrates

#14. I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.

Rachel Hartman

#15. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#16. He never took his eyes off my face as I told him about Mack,

Mary Higgins Clark

#17. I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

Marcel Hirscher

#18. I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

Robert Burns

#19. A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.

Jules Verne

#20. She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture.

George Saunders

#21. I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

Natalie Portman

#22. God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.

Billy Graham

#23. A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.

Anais Nin