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Tag Name "Spasm" (18)

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When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
George Meredith
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
Henry Rollins
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... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.
John E. Sarno
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Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.
Suzanne Collins
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Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, Good God! Here I am again! not always with pleasure, often with pain sometimes in a spasm.
Virginia Woolf
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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.
William Butler Yeats
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
William James
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
Edward Abbey
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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
Frank McCourt
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
Hippocrates
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General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Robert McNamara
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Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.
Steve Allen
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life is long between the desire and the spasm.
T. S. Eliot
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
Wendell Phillips
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
William James
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Aneurin Bevan