"Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kathy Lette from Feb 25, 2013

Kathy Lette

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“When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge and understanding of how holy You are, or at least let Your holiness shine forth in the spiritual lives we lead.' And this surely happens as men see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.”

Source : John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.113, Paulist Press
“I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.”
“I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.”
“In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.”
“The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
“I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.”
“When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.”
“We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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