“I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.” MomentsHomeWifeSourceQuietMy WifeCherishBack HomeFinding HappinessQuiet MomentsHappy MomentsNova ScotiaNovas Author:Peter MacKay
“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
“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.” MenFirstsMomentsGrowsWifeSadnessHe ManHusbandMutualFirst LoveRuinedHusband And WifeMake OutTacitRare Moments Author:Laura Riding
“I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.” IfsThinkingChildrenMomentsFeelingsTodayAsksLeaderWifeHarderOur ChildrenOur FamilyYour ChildrenSensitiveExposedRudePrivate Life Author:Stephen Ambrose
“I was able to get a few words out that Scott Peterson was the Scott Peterson that had a missing, pregnant wife and ... I just shook. They said I was there probably like an hour and it just seemed like a moment ... I couldn't stop shaking. So I was, I guess, in shock.” SaidMomentsAbleHoursWifeMissingShockPregnantThey SaidShakingFew WordsPregnant Wife Author:Scott Peterson
“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.” IfsWritingMeanDoeMadeSometimesMomentsUsedMotherGirlWhiteLaughingAliveWifeCryTearsToughDecidedNuclearTragicScratchesMessyAntigoneWriting PoemsNuclear Families Author:Juliana Spahr
“I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain too and both of us have many friends there.” MomentsFacesWifeStudentsAdversityLipsBritishMy WifeAdmireParksBritainTraitsMany FriendsGreat MomentsFacing AdversityStiff Upper Lip Author:Asif Ali Zardari
“In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.” PeopleWorldHumansMomentsHomeFallWaterLove IsWifeEconomicLandSecurityColdSummerMy FamilyMadPainfulCommittedMy WifeHorribleInsecurityAutumnShorePatchesAugustPlaces In The WorldMaineCold WaterEconomic SecurityWives Love Author:John Hodgman
“When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.” ThinkingFeelsWritingMomentsHomePainSongTurnsEnjoyDifficultWifeMy FriendsMy WifeSpendingEncountersEnjoy LifeSurfingSpending TimeWriting And Thinking Author:Jon Foreman
“Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.” IfsMomentsFilmWifeDirectorsLetting GoSittingMy WifeAwardsAcademyAcademy Awards Author:Ben Kingsley
“I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.” GivingI CanMomentsShowsChanceFiveWifeWonderfulBlockChickensRetiringTerrificAntidoteDetectivesFrostJason Author:John Nettles