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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life. -- David Rockefeller
With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago. -- Armand Assante
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting. -- Charley Pride
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? -- William Osler
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion. -- Noreena Hertz
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame. -- Cate Blanchett
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. -- Zig Ziglar
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. -- Andre Malraux
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine. -- Padma Lakshmi
When we were courting, I told my wife: 'I could live in your eyes.' She said: 'You'd be at home; there's a stye in one of them.' -- Les Dawson
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. -- Ken Livingstone
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. -- Dambisa Moyo
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like. -- Dick Cavett
Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important. -- Denise Vasi
On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life. -- Kit Harington
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote. -- James Surowiecki
When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture. -- Michael Dickinson
If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years. -- Beverly Lewis
I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting.' And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously. -- Glenn Turner
I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago -- Armand Assante
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. -- Franz Kafka
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. -- Albert Einstein
There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. -- Laurence Sterne
There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians. -- Georges Pompidou
People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women. -- Julia Quinn
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing. -- Rebecca St. James
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. -- Walter Pater
If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today. -- Rick Warren
Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task. -- Julie Garwood
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post. -- Sun Tzu
All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair. -- Emily Dickinson
Hitler was flirting and courting Eva [Braun] I would say, but he was not serious about her yet. That took awhile to develop. -- Gretl Braun
Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. -- Zig Ziglar
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. -- Leonard Cohen
Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages. -- Jay Leno
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom -- Ezra Pound
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime! -- Thomas Hardy
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men... -- Sun Tzu
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person. -- Lev Grossman
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it. -- Plutarch
The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife. -- Clive James

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