#ria

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

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 reality, serial killers are of average intelligence. ↗

— Pat Brown

#average intelligence #intelligence #killers #reality #serial

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. ↗

— Pat Brown

#aftermath #boost #community #control #coverage

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

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #concerned #effective #forcing #generous

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#between #call #done #enough #felt

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ↗

— James Bryce

#consists #country #flag #our #patriotism

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#being #decisions #extreme #heard #impose

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#ancient #battle #blood #contest #go