#wed

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#been #certain #certain extent #dead #endowed

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#becomes #business #day #definitely #done

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#become #been #better #civilised #dirty

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#centuries #freshness #joy #lightness #linked

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#broadened #brotherhood #into #live #narrowed

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#creation #effectively #god #implicitly #involved

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#i #income #liberation #loved #me

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forbear #pain #pleasure #who #would