“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.” MenHumansBookStatesMomentsHelpingLawReadingGamesHuman BeingsRoomsFireWifeCoupleProtectHusbandWasteOrdinaryEconomicsGardenIncreaseArmyPoliceCourtThis LifeEtcWasting TimeParliamentDiggingHusband And WifePubsChattingDarts Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.” WritingKindLittlesKidsGuyRoomsWifeMy WifeObsessedLittle KidDescribe Myself Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.” PeopleKnowsWellsLittlesEnoughAbleFilmBitsProcessNaturalRoomsPsychologyWifeBecomingLittle BitMy FriendsDistanceInvestingMy WifeDistance Myself Author:Guy Pearce
“I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?” KnowsWellsLittlesLawLife IsRoomsCasesWifePositionHumilityBrotherHusbandEatingPreparedSouthStuckTrapsMiceNestsIn-lawsPitifulUnmarriedMarried WomenPatronageSpinstersMouse Traps Book:The Glass Menagerie Source: The Glass Menagerie
“You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.” ThinkingLittlesTwoMatterCausesRoomsWifeLove YouWindEssentialsCornersBrushesBathroomYour PastRazorsShavingToothbrushesLove Your Wife Author:Michael Caine
“We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.” KnowsMenNeedsStillsEnoughGuySpaceAnimalRoomsCasesWifeGroupsSmartSpeciesMalesCowsThat Guy Author:Julia Phillips
“I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesI CanKidsBitsRoomsTalkingWifeLittle BitAppealsCringe Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.” IfsNeedsHeartLittlesCareJoyFatherChristRoomsWifeHusbandCloudsAccessSatisfiedSwimMakersSwimmingRaysIdolsFountainVeilsGod's LoveFree LoveSunbeamsHis Smile Author:Robert E. Murray
“My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.” My OwnRoomsWifeWorstFaultsHearingMy WifeRelaxed Author:Tom Hanks
“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.” FacesRoomsWifeDoorsCenturyHusbandBlowRevengeDrawingContemptNineteenth Century Book:The Red and the Black Source: The Red and the Black
“A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.” HateFoundRoomsWifeHabitHusbandAdoreHusband And WifeFound Happiness Author:Honore de Balzac
“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.” IfsWorldBelieveHomeMotherHeavenSexWomenPleasureRoomsLordWifeDutyPromiseSacredFortunateFulfillmentBelovedBlissOppositionComing HomeVulgarOur LordJoyousDeservingIdyllicSmall RoomsBeloved Wife Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBodyRoomsWifeFindingsOriginalsTalesFairyFairy TaleCastles Author:Alice Hoffman
“I have a wife and child, and I guess that would constitute a family, and sometimes I watch shows where the people aren't related. And I don't get nervous, get the sweats, and have to run out of the room. I mean, I can handle it.” PeopleMeanChildrenI CanSometimesShowsRunningRoomsWatchesWifeHandleNervousRelatedSweat Author:Andy Richter
“I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!” IfsThinkingTryingTwoUseLightRoomsWonderKnowingWifeFlowerDaughterMy WifeRepeatsRoughDelicateTwo DaughtersRough Drafts Book:The Three Sisters Source: The Three Sisters