“Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.”

— Ian McEwan , book Sweet Tooth

Source: Sweet Tooth

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British author 1948

William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) American activist

Source: Credo, 2004, p. 7

“I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be. It doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.”

Rick Santorum (1958) American politician

2012-03-20
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“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“on tolerance of gays: "You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway."”

Cyndi Lauper (1953) American singer, songwriter, actress and activist

Interview with Matthew Rettenmund in his book "Totally Awesome 80's" (1996), p. 149-150

“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.”

Bernard Bailyn book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, Chapter VI, p. 305.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.”

Louise Penny book Still Life

Source: Still Life

“She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;
He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:
The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,
Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face.
"By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:
"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."”

Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) English critic, essayist, poet and writer

The Glove and the Lions http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1084.html

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

A humorous reference to Menander's "ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [whom the gods love dies young]".
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.”

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