Abdul Basit Abd Quotes & Sayings

Becoming one flesh is a broad concept involving the totality of life. The context of Genesis 2 and the teaching of the rest of the Bible about marriage demand this. At the same time, it is generally recognized that there is no place where this total sharing is more beautifully pictured or fully experienced than in the sexual relationship of the man and his wife. — Wayne Mack

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway. — Andy Warhol

The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs. It is through love and work, as Freud noted in a characteristically pungent remark, that we exchange crippling emotional conflict for ordinary unhappiness. Love and work enable each of us to explore a small corner of the world and to come to accept it on its own terms. But our society tends either to devalue small comforts or else to expect too much of them. Our standards of "creative, meaningful work" are too exalted to survive disappointment. Our ideal of "true romance" puts an impossible burden on personal relationships. We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. — Christopher Lasch

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children. — Sandra Tsing Loh

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies. — Dennis Muren

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.' — Janet Jackson

In the fifteenth century the Pope deeded the entire western hemisphere to Spain and Portugal and nobody paid the slightest attention to the fact that the real estate was already occupied by several million Indians with their own laws, customs, and notions of property rights. His grant deed was pretty effective, too. Take a look at a western hemisphere map sometime and notice where Spanish is spoken and where Portuguese is spoken - and see how much land the Indians have left. — Robert A. Heinlein

I think I'm in love with missing you more than I'm in love with you. — Sylvia Plath

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win. — Hugh Jackman

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not. — Clayton Christensen

Sometimes you just gotta let some tears out or you'll burst. -Miz Allemond — Kimberley Griffiths Little