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«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
abortions, aspirin, at risk, bellies, cigarette, cirrhosis, classified, classify, commuter, commuters, controversial, emergency, fainting, onto, pregnancies, pregnancy, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, subject to, swell, trains, transmitted
«Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.»
«...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.»
Author: Judith Guest
(Novelist)
| About:
Depression
| Keywords:
crying, depression, give a damn, give vent, Plain People, reduction, reductions, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, upper, uppers, vent, vents
«Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.»
Author: Meg Greenfield
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
in practice, in principle, objections, stiff, stiffest, stiffing
«Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| Keywords:
bamboo, bending, cracked, notice, stiffest, survives, The Willows, willow, willows, willow tree, with the wind
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
Author: Monty Python
| Keywords:
bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, ceased, choir, choirs, curtain, daisies, expire, expired, expires, expiring, gone, invisible, joined, maker, nailed, nailing, no more, parrot, parrots, passed, perch, perched, perches, pined, pines, pining, pushing, push down, rests, ringed, ring out, Ring The, ring up, rung, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, The Choir, The Makers, The Nails
«I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
(Actress)
| Keywords:
claustrophobic, conventional, I Tried, lockjaw, neck, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, The Others, varieties
«A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Apologies,
Insults
| Keywords:
apologies, apology, compensated, compensates, compensating, healed, injured, injured party, injuring, insult, party, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, wronged
