"I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated."

-- Richard Ford

#Want Quotes #Married Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.”

Source : Zane, Eileen M. Johnson, V. Anthony Rivers (2007). “Zane's Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas”, Atria Books
“To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”
“I really like when critics reveal their subjectivity and their humanity. I prefer it when people say nice things, but if they say not-nice things or things that are critical, I'm open to it and I accept it. I mean, I have to live with it. But I do think there's a dishonesty in not acknowledging that you're a person with an opinion. I think it's almost like a power grab.”

Source : "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.
“We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.”

Source : John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.134, InterVarsity Press
“I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?”

Source : "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.
“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.”
“Who doesnâ€™t want an exploding wicker chicken?”
“For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which they live.”

Source : Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.19, Pearson Education

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