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Quotes About Engender

La femme est insatiable comme la mer (...), mystérieuse comme la nuit (...) image de l'immensité, elle engendre la claustrophobie.
~ Pierre Darmon
Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
~ William Butler Yeats
beget injustice and oppression of a part of the community, and engender schemes which, though they gratify a momentary inclination or desire, terminate in general distress, dissatisfaction, and disgust.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
~ Marcel Proust
When that Aprille with his shoures sote. The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertue engendred is the flour.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never "outside all social constraint." Desire may be outside one set of constraints or another; but social constraints are what engender desire; and, one way or another, even at its most apparently catastrophic, they contour desire's expression.
~ Samuel R. Delany
When he spoke to people in the flesh, he could never tell what had put them off, his message or his person.
~ Michael Lewis
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.
~ Henry James
It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.
~ Thomas Hardy
Language has a creative character: it is typically innovative without bounds, appropriate to circumstance but not caused by them – a crucial distinction – and can engender thoughts in others that they recognise they could have expressed themselves.
~ Noam Chomsky
My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.
~ Kathryn V. White
Four Essential Elements That Engender Trust (Chapter 8) 1. Credibility 2. Reliability 3. Intimacy 4.
~ David H. Maister
The rampant, totally mystifying force of contradiction. I understand now that each fact is nullified by the next fact, that each thought engenders an equal and opposite thought. Impossible to say anything without reservation.
~ Paul Auster
Crimes determined to take place engender all they need: victims, circumstances, pretexts, opportunities.
~ Paul Valery