A Quotes
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“A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.”
“A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
“A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she would look into his embittered eyes. The more lacerated his soul, the more revolting and contemptible he became to the world, the more she would love him. She would run after a truck; she would wait in queues on Kuznetsky Most, or even by the camp boundary fence, desperate to hand over a few sweets or an onion; she would bake shortbread for him on an oil stove; she would give years of her life just to be able to see him for half an hour...
Not every woman you sleep with can be called a wife.”
Source: Life and Fate
“A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.”
“A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.”
“A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him.”
“A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it.”
“A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That's the only rule to follow if you want a happy marriage...No partnership can ever be equal.It will always be unequal, but take care it is unequal in favor of the husband. If the scales tilt in your favor, God help you, both of you.”
“A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost”
“A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.”
“A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.”
“A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.”
“A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.”
“A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.”
Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.”
“A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.”
“A wife, domestic, good, and pure,
Like snail, should keep within her door;
But not, like snail, with silver track,
Place all her wealth upon her back.”
“A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.”
“A wife’s prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else’s, even his mother’s. (Sorry, Mom.)”
Source: The Power of a Praying® Wife
“A wig is a wig is a wig.”
“A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.”
“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.”
“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.”
“A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own”
“a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.”
“A wild joy follows when you realize you've been caught and are now free, when you fling open the prison door, walk outside, and gulp air and light for the first time in hours or days or weeks.
You sense who you were and what you knew before you defined things as good or bad, fat or thin, right or wrong. Before you became what you needed to be to be loved, you know the holiness of trees and water and rocks. You knew the adults were a bit mad, but you loved them anyway. You had no doubt, not one, about who you were; you had wings, and now, you have them again.”
Source: This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“A Wild Open…
love me in a wild open
with a gentle hold
where i find myself, in myself
but let me feel
your racing heart
and your burning blood
through your steady hands
and let this be how we love
so we can love in a way that the stars we
come from want for us to know
let us burn and breathe all at once”
“A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.”
“A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“A wild thing may say wild things.”
“A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.”
Source: I Was a Dancer
“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
“A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).”
“A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.”
Source: Golden
“A will will always finds a way.”
“A willing heart adds feather to the heel.”
Source: A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie
“A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.”
“A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...
“A willing person will not try to make you wrong.”
“A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A willing spirit, a determined effort.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.”
“A willingness to be bold and not be limited by circumstances, to try and fail, and to free myself from that outcome.
Work where the work opens.”
“a willingness to be vulnerable will always breed strength. And I'm not talking the kind of flex-yer-muscles, "let's go do some deadlifts bro" kind of strength. I mean an inner strength. A strength only you can see. One built through the simple joy of managing to keep the pedals turning, even when the road ahead is steep and you're always gasping for breath.”