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curious
«It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Cute,
Cute love,
Inspirational,
Love
| Keywords:
curious, only when, ridiculous
«It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.»
Author: Joseph Marie de Maistre
(Diplomat, Philosopher, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
curious, idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasy, resolving, The Pleasure
«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
«It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
curious, frustrate, frustrates, frustrating, vary
«It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| Keywords:
ancestors, antelope, conscientiously, curious, Darwin, disgust, elephant, Elephant Man, evolution, instinctive, nearest, relations, ridicule, spared, The Elephant, The Elephant Man, traced
«It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
ADD, Another Story, coercion, conditions, curious, educational, enjoyment, existing, foundations, grave, holy, inquiry, Meet The, New American, promoted, promotes, recognize, searching, sense of duty, so as to, strangle, strangled, strangles, strangling, structure, The New American, unsatisfactory, wing
«It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.»
«It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
beginning, beyond, boated, boating, boats, broken, burned, burned at, burning in, burn in, burn out, burn up, curious, end, feeling, goes, matters, mercifully, pain, peace, powers, sensation, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out, The Beginning, The End
«It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare»
«It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Humor,
Seriousness
| Keywords:
are, curious, fact, is a, never, people, peopled, seriously, take, taken over, taking over, that, themselves, they, trivial, when