"My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even."

-- Anne Tyler

#Cousin Quotes #Mistake Quotes #New Beginnings Quotes

“I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.”
“We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.”
“Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.”
“We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.”

Source : Song: All Fired Up
“Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.”

Source : "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.
“There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.”
“Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.”

Source : "Social Security Is Not the Problem" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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