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«I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.»
Author: Nora Johnson
| About:
Divorce,
Marriage
| Keywords:
admittedly, dire, direst, married person
«Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!»
«New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, dire, direr, direst, elaborately, fantastically, New York, York
«AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.»
«BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aver, Castor, Castor and, Castor and Pollux, cavern, caverns, direst, disasters, first century, Galatea, hole in the ground, holy water, Pallas, Pollux, skull, spilled, watering hole, wine cellar
«Birth: The first and direst of all disasters»
«Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.»
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
«From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow»
«Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Reason,
Testing
| Keywords:
dire, direr, direst, draws, nigh, The test, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving, untrained
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