#mar

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#before #blooms #comes #full #hills

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation. ↗

— Rebekah Brooks

#boost #circulation #competitive #editor #every

An enduring marriage requires possibility thinking, elasticity, and resilience. It needs continual attention and adaptation. It requires a shift in interest as our partner’s interest’s shift. Marriage, to remain good, involves a lifelong project of adjusting and readjusting our attitudes. For this is the only path to finding positive options to our most perplexing circumstances. ↗

— Dr.s Les and Leslie Parrott

#love #marriage #attitude

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#developing #developing world #generation #marshall #marshall plan

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive. ↗

— Charles Stuart Calverley

#i #inexpensive #know #married #marvellous

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#cows #dad #eighth #eighth grade #four

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits. ↗

— John Bruton

#european #foreign #global #half #market

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. ↗

— Yul Brynner

#being #being smart #dumb #get #men

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#find #know #ourselves #position #remarkable