69 Quotes About Poignant
- Author Chief Seattle
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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.
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- Author Louise Murphy
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Make love to me,” she whispered. “If you make love to me then it is two of us. There is just one of him when he takes my blood, but we are two.” “We are two and more than two,” he whispered in her ear, and then he lifted her and carried her to the bed.
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- Author Lawren Leo
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She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.
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- Author Mike Tyson
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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- Author Ian Fleming
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In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.
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- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote.
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- Author J.P. Delaney
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But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.
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- Author Anthony Powell
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There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
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- Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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It was fun, wasn't it?'The way he said that. Like he knew we would never play that game again. We were too old now. We'd lost something and we both knew it.
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