"Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?"

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Marriage Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Broken Quotes

“I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.”

Source : "Serby's Sunday Q&A with … Carlos Beltran". New York Post Interview, nypost.com. June 26, 2008.
“When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them”
“The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.”

Source : Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com
“A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.”
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”
“Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?”
“I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.”

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