"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

-- Christopher Hampton

#Husband Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rivals Quotes

“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books
“My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.”
“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”
“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”
“I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.”
“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”
“Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain -- this is force.”
“We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.191, Sheba Blake Publishing

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