Subdued Quotes (7 quotes)

“Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

tags: brokenhearted, dostoyevsky, feelings, heart, helpless, humiliation, subdued

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“...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: beauty, defiance, fierceness, subdued, tame

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“Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alluring, bashful, chastened-humility, deferential, desirable, diffidence, diffident, hot, humble, humbleness, life, luscious, lush, meek, meekness, modest, modesty, nubile, provocative, respectful, seductive, self-deprecating, self-effacing, sensual, sex, sexy, shy, slinky, subdued, submissive, sultry, tantalizing, tempting, toothsome, turn-off, turn-on, unassertive, unassertiveness, unassuming, unpresuming, voluptuous

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“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: abase, abash, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, beautiful, beauty, boyfriend, boyfriends, chastened, cut-down-to-size, debase, deferential, deflate, degrade, demean, desire, diffident, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, humble, humiliate, humiliation, humor, humour, husband, husbands, joke, jokes, like, love, lower, lust, lust-for, make-eat-crow, make-eat-humble-pie, man, meek, men, modest, mortify, overbearing, proud, respectful, satire, self-deprecating, self-effacing, settle-someone-s-hash, shame, subdued, submissive, take-down-a-peg-or-two, ugliness, ugly, unassertive-unpresuming, unassuming, want, wanted, wife, wives

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“When the guy finally pins the alligator on its back and rubs its thorax to lull it into semiconsciousness, it occurs to me the whole appeal of this spectacle is vaguely sexual. Subduing a beast by turning him over and rubbing his belly until he's calm.”
― Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

tags: beast-and-human, sexy-scene, subdued

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“If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued”
― Sunday Adelaja

tags: christ, follower, jesus, subdued, world

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“The glory of all men is all that holds its legacy core bonded to subdue it agora's aglory”
― Ben Jr Grey

tags: agora, apetite, familliars, glory-of-man, infusion, legacy-quotes, subdued, wisdom-quotes

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