Ikernel Quotes & Sayings

They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying:
Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship.
They were married before they noticed many small differences in background, aspiration, education, ambition. ( ... )
Noting such differences, Leah was in some sense disappointed in herself that they did not cause real conflict between them. It was hard to get used to the fact that the pleasure her body found in his, and vice versa, should so easily overrule the many objections she had, or should have had, or thought she should have had. — Zadie Smith

Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, war or poverty. And therefore to find it so much easier to be virtuous. For a while, the case had left her numb, caring less, feeling less, going about her business, telling no one. But she became squeamish about bodies, barely able to look at her own or Jack's without feeling repelled. How was she to talk about this? Hardly plausible, to have told him that at this stage of a legal career, this one case among so many others, its sadness, its visceral — Ian McEwan

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring. — Alma Guillermoprieto

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature. — George Murphy

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained. — Alain De Botton

you got one life so dont stop living it! — Hedley

When two intelligent parties disagree, that's when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins. — Ray Dalio

No man who merely skims the book of God can profit thereby; we must dig and mine until we obtain the hid treasure. The door of the word only opens to the key of diligence. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain. — Michele Bachmann

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love. — Clive Barker