“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.” MenHumansChildrenReasonRealityLawSpiritPoorMoralWifeSubjectsMaterialsShapesConcernPressureMiseryErasAutonomyCunningWorkshopsSupplementsIntroverted Author:Max Horkheimer
“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.” LittlesSaidI CanTogetherGirlFoundCausesWifeTroubleSubjectsRelationProphetSuspicionDisruptionPolygamyParishApostasy Author:Benjamin F. Johnson
“One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.” HumansChildrenRealizingSimpleHalfOur LivesWifeSubjectsHusbandEgoPatternsSeekingListsHuman LifeNovelistsTragicGrandmotherShadeConventionalPullingSweetnessAnguishHusband And WifeHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsAffectionatePulling AwayLoving Husband Book:Not Under Forty Source: Not Under Forty
“There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.” ShouldLooksHomeEyeWifeSubjectsHusbandShould HaveMarkRelationRegardAffectionStrangerFaithfulTiesPatriotismSheepCrownsMonarchyForeignersInternational RelationsChaste Author:Elizabeth I
“The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.” MenChoicesMarriageWifeSubjectsHusbandMen And WomenQueensPatriarchyHumiliateElevating Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.” ChildrenCountryHelpingPainLife IsSufferingHouseCitiesWifeTroubleSubjectsLike YouNeighborTrialsStationsHouseholdSuffering And PainCity And Country Book:The sermon on the mount and the magnificat Source: The sermon on the mount and the magnificat
“Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say 'go for help.'” PeopleStillsHelpingSexInterestingSunWifeSubjectsHusbandTiredMy WifeMy HusbandMost Interesting Author:Ruth Westheimer
“I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.” NeedsLongToo MuchWifeSubjectsMy Wife Author:Mike Tyson
“My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it up endlessly and relentlessly. I think it's a search for clarity, but she uses different words.” IfsThinkingDifferentUseWifeWorstSubjectsHabitMy WifeClarityBotherDropping Author:Paul Reiser