Consummates Quotes & Sayings

The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh. — Christopher West

I gave myself up to my thoughts - what else could I do! Of course, this was the very worst thing for my head, but I still do not see how I could have avoided it. This winter my programme will be to recover from myself, to rest myself away from my thoughts - for years I have not had this experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world, — Padma Lakshmi

I meant it, what I said in hell. You're my glory sword, you know that? My truth. — Cynthia Hand

The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality. — Rory Stewart

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. — Carl Jung

If she picked Roland over you, that makes her the greatest fool who ever lived. — Sarah J. Maas

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. — Robert Burns

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it. — H.L. Mencken

Now, it is beyond a doubt that the steps by which the Lord in his mercy consummates our salvation are these, "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Rom. 8:30). — John Calvin

This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim

When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs. — Red Schoendienst

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear. — Gary Zukav

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. — Joseph Joubert

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine. — Bill Hader

Good night. What? Those ladies behind those windows? Dream, monsieur, cheap dream, a trip to the Indies! Those persons perfume themselves with spices. You go in, they draw the curtains, and the navigation begins. The gods come down onto the naked bodies and the islands are set adrift, lost souls crowned with the tousled hair of palm trees in the wind. Try it. — Albert Camus