#sad

When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#beauty

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#action #ambassador #else #endless #everyone

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#after #ambassador #back #come #concerns

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#either #had #i #ministers #new

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#dead #finished #iraq #out #saddam

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#destruction #going #groups #iraq #links

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. ↗

— Susie Bright

#child #childhood #had #healing #i

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#dispel #god #people #sad #want

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. ↗