Gerald Brenan Quotes
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Quotes to Explore
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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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.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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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.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.
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To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
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I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
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I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
