Wilja Tulip Quotes & Sayings

The heart of marriage is memories. — Bill Cosby

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform. — Eugene Kennedy

I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I'm doing well, she thought, now keep him scared. — Wendy Ely

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process. — Patricia McConnell

Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was. — Rick Riordan

When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, enough is enough? God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence and we break the law of our being at our peril. — Desmond Tutu

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it. — Howard Hawks

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. — Lady Gaga

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? — W.E.B. Du Bois

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. — Gautama Buddha

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. — Betty Friedan

In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human. — Pope Benedict XVI

In psychologist Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love, he identifies three characteristics: passion, intimacy, and commitment. Passion is defined as physical attraction and sexual connection, intimacy as the sense of being close and bonded, and commitment as the decision to be together exclusively. As a romantic relationship moves through time, one of these three characteristics is carrying the most weight. Accordingly, although romantic love offers both intimacy and passion/sex, commitment is needed to complete the triangle. — Susan Shapiro Barash

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof. — Ron Kaufman