"Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#New York Quotes #Fate Quotes #Gay Quotes

“The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael - and we actually cut class to get tickets - was INXS at the Garden.”
“Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.”
“You cannot make horses 'safe.”

Source : "Royal approval" by Romilly Weeks, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.
“Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.”
“Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.”
“Happiness is not a place - it is a direction.”
“Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.”
“May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”

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