“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”
Source: The Shadow of the Lynx
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Eleanor Hibbert4
English novelist 1906–1993Related quotes
Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1948) American anthropologist
What the Bones Tell Us (1997)
“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles
Source: "Second Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.
Maxim 466.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.”
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
Last words, to his wife Maud (6 May 1919), as quoted in Uncovering Lives : The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology (1994) by Alan C. Elms, p. 154
“Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.”
Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter
Source: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script