"No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict."

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Susie Orbach

#Long Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Scots Quotes

“I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.”
“Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.”

Source : Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64
“We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community,”
“First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.”
“I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!”

Source : "The Circle of Honor" by David Brooksby, www.ldsbc.edu. June 05, 2012.
“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”
“The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.”
“A milestone is less date and more definition.”

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