#ria

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#inspirational #marriage #friendship

Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness. ↗

— Cathy Marie Hake

#marriage #inspirational

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchist #chomsky #communism-patriotism-inspiration #lenin #leninism

Now they return home, their bones bruised and their spirit slightly broken, but they’re still alive, and they will be well sometime soon. ↗

— Hannah Nikka Bryan

#home #inspirational #return #spirit #war

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#leave #marriage #men-and-women #marriage

Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. ↗

— Vaughn Walker

#discrimination #gay-rights #heterosexuality #homosexuality #law

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#england #hope #immortality #king-arthur #matter-of-britain

Who is he?" "An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#society

Когато отпиваше тъмната течност, мъжът разбираше, че жаждата на жената до него е попила много сол, затова и виното го хващаше. ↗

— Radostina A. Angelova

#men #thirst #wine #women #men

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him. ↗

— William Trevor

#cheating #marriage #men #relationships #women