#versa

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#explore #had #i #me #needed

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#dismantle #government #marriage #meaning #meaning of

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#crowd #desert #holiness #silence

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#act #binds #church #domestic #eventual

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#before #constitute #day #divine #entire

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ↗

— Plato

#conversation #discover #hour #more #person

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#reality #sketch #though #universal #way

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#africa #around #because #country #elements