#rounds

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#divorce #every #find #grounds #marriage

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. ↗

— Aristotle

#also #angry #feels #grounds #length

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#fathom #full #full moon #impossible #magnificence

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#being #harmony #life #lived #native

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#attributes #comes #elation #halo #her

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short. ↗

— Harry Crews

#family

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #bit #centre #country #couple

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#child #clean #cover #good #ought

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. ↗

— William Blum

#concerned #deeply #grounds #hypocrisy #immediate

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

#entertain #grounds #liking #make #make up