#ria

If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry. ↗

— Karen Cecil Smith

#marriage

I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#love-quotes #love-quotes-for-him #marriage #relationship #relationships

...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#marriage

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#vegetarianism #eating

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#love #marriage #willingness #attitude

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#monkey #music #music

He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dating #rose-hathaway #dating

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#beating #complete #faster #having #heart

Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cattle #factory-farming #feedlots #nature