Discouraging Marriage Quotes & Sayings

Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out. — Ross Levinsohn

There once was a little mouse. He was a very clever little mouse. He lived in the walls of a house with — Paul Ramage

Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last. — Jim Wallis

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin — Bill Watterson

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened. — Jonathan Stroud

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant. — Daniel Kahneman

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming. — John Marsden

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it — Lindsay Pagano

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain. — Janet Fitch

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless. — Thomas Paine

Yes, and in your mail the apology note appears referring to "our mistake." Apparently your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion. This is how the apparatus she propels you into begins to multiply its meaning. What did you say? — Claudia Rankine

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The fires of hell are not hot enough for a man - or woman! - who would hurt his children. — Joe Hill