Quotes of Throes - somelinesforyou

“ Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ A fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth. ”

- Martha Duffy

“ I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers. ”

- Kevin Kline

“ Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers — they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery. ”

- John Cheever
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