#hips

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#geographical #intensified #jobs #marriage #mobility

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#championships #motivate #ones #themselves #want

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#become #century #detriment #developed #fact

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#loved #loved ones #ones #over #precedence

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family #marriage #relationships #family

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#parents-and-children #family

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#agree #bad #been #enjoy #getting

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#humour #love #relationships #women #family

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan. ↗

— David Sedaris

#relationships #romance #sex #family

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. ↗

— David Duke

#affirmative #affirmative action #against #college #discrimination