#mar

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#daily-life #marriage #family

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#about #average #before #between #her

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#contributed #could #fiscal #harder #help

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#centuries #civilization #existed #invention #market

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. ↗

— Anne Rice

#blood #death #destroy #enkil #kill

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#back #bring #came #days #downtown

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#april #days #driving #first #first time

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#count #fifty #girl #marry #only

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#anymore #brando #canadian #decided #guys