"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Relationship Quotes #Marriage Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy.”
“There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.”
“The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.”
“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.9, Granta Books
“I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?"”
“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”

Source : "The Scientific Work of Georges Lemaître". Commentarii (Pontifical Academy of Sciences journal), Volume 2, 11, 1968.
“Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.34, Hachette UK
“The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.”

You may also like:

Andrew Johnson
17th U.S. President
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
George Washington
1st U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
John Wilkes Booth
Actor
Mary Todd Lincoln
Former First Lady of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President