Quotes
Authors
Merle Shain

"I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away."

Source : "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others". Book by Merle Shain, 1973.

Merle Shain

#Marriage Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Soul Quotes

“When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?”
“The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.”
“It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.”
“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
“You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper”

Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.
“When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.”

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