Bill Nelson Quotes

Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't.

Bill Nelson

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• Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Believe
  • Always
  • Marriage

• I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Why
  • Everyone

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Freedom
  • Marriage
  • Defense

• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Political
  • Marriage
  • Years

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Same

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Long
  • Marriage

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Time
  • Why
  • Man

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Why
  • Said
  • Week

• My hats off to anybody filming action, because you get beat up. If I'm going to get the crap kicked out of me, I would love 15,000 people on hand to tell me that I'm doing good or I'm doing bad. So, if I'm going to be in any physical duress, I'd really like it to be in a WWE ring, which is why I was so amped to be a part of 'Trainwreck.'

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Show me a prison, show me a jail Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale And I'll show you a young man With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Why

• Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Hate
  • Purpose
  • Lesbian

• Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People

• Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Why
  • Marriage