"He quietly groaned. Again and again, heâ€™d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of infrequently pleasured men with a now-steady source of coitus. Then they went about crowing as if theyâ€™d invented the institution of matrimony and stood to earn a profit for every bachelor they could convert."

-- Tessa Dare

#Grateful Quotes #Men Quotes #Way Quotes

“I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.”

Source : "Egypt's new Coptic pope faces delicate balancing act" by Abdel-Rahman Hussein, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.
“Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it”
“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 11, 2013
“The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press
“In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.”
“I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.”
“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”

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