#belongs

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. ↗

— William Hague

#belongs #diversity #equally #ethnic #family

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#democracy #exercise #those #who

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#belongs #nutshell #philosophy #put

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#boy #country #country boy #crowded #destroy

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ↗

— Novalis

#artist #belongs #his #work

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#back #belongs #brought #home #into

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government. ↗

— Arthur Hoppe

#damned #god #government #i #i do

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family. ↗

— Elena Anaya

#am #because #belongs #family #friends

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#come #degree #felt #given #gives