The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: history future conservation generations natural resources Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of these days you’re going to fall in love. Don’t settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn’t come easy; the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting. Never. —Jamie McGuire in Walking Disaster More about this quote Tags: love girls fight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: love gifts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider — even a child of the marriage — has the right to judge. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: relationships judgement marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: love relationships people children marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: love memory marriage divorce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mattress, curved like a preacher's palm asking for witnesses in His name's sake, enclosed them each and every night and muffled their whispering, old-time love. —Toni Morrison More about this quote Tags: love sexuality lust Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing. —Charles Bukowski More about this quote Tags: poetry sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: life imagination erotic worship passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If my hands tremble with desire, they tremble likewise when I reach for the chalice on Sunday, and if lust makes me run and caper, it is no stronger a force than that which brings me to my knees to say thanksgivings and litanies. What can this capricious skin be but a blessing? —John Cheever More about this quote Tags: desire trembling lust Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Tags: life living sexuality sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: politics love sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many who have spent a lifetime in love can tell you less of love than the child whose dog died yesterday. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: love knowledge explanation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do. —Bettina Arndt More about this quote Tags: change women marriage men habit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote. —Barbara Ehrenreich More about this quote Tags: history marriage evolution primates Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email