“And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.”
Source: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
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Canadian novelist 1931Related quotes
“If we keep on with business as usual, the Earth will be warmed more every year”
Source: Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997), Chapter 11, "Ambush: The Warming of the World"
Context: If we keep on with business as usual, the Earth will be warmed more every year; drought and floods will be endemic; many more cities, provinces, and whole nations will be submerged beneath the waves — unless heroic worldwide engineering countermeasures are taken. In the longer run, still more dire consequences may follow, including the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the inundation of almost all the coastal cities on the planet.
“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There will be commotions and turbulent times,
Seek no peace — it will not accrue to thee.”
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin
Context: There will be commotions and turbulent times,
Seek no peace — it will not accrue to thee.
The Ruler of Heaven knows thy prayer.
From his ardent wrath thy praise has propitiated him
The Sovereign King of Glory addresses me with wisdom
Hast thou seen the dominus fortis?
Knowest thou the profound prediction domini?
"Hugh Hefner" (1985)
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
“A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.”
As quoted in Tusculanae Quaestiones by Cicero, iv. 6.
“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.”
A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
“Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.”
Qui finem quaeris amoris,
Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 143–144
