#pressing

Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a safe house in a world of danger; the ultimate haven of two solitary, fearful souls. When you were single, this was what everyone who was already married was always telling you. Daniel himself had said it to his unmarried friends. It was, however, a lie. Sex had everything to do with violence, that was true, and marriage was at once a container for the madness between men and women and a fragile hedge against it, as religion was to death, and the laws of physics to the immense quantity of utter emptiness of which the universe was made. But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#love #marriage #sex #death

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#comfortable #energy #english-speaking #expressing #feeling

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#anger #could #did #expressing #film

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#am #because #bill #climate #contribution

But no one came. Because no one ever does. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#depression

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#before #bishop #commission #expensive #expressing

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#depressing #enjoying #got #important #kinds

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#create #expressing #good #hate #i

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#best #best interests #between #citizen #earth

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#blood #death #depressing #emphasis #i