“The secret is that there is no secret.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Quotes For Wife page 2
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet
Part 9, LIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Willa Cather book Death Comes for the Archbishop
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“The business of business is business.”
Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966) American businessman
Widely attributed to Milton Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles (1976) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.
Misattributed
“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”
Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave
Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“There was content, but no container.”
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 135
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
Ferenc Dávid (1510–1579) Hungarian noble
This attribution seems to have begun in the 1960s, and has been debunked at "Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World (15 August 2012) http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/229844.shtml; previously misattributed in A Chosen Faith (1991) by John A. Buehrens; also in Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith by Mark W. Harris https://web.archive.org/web/20060101061859/www.uua.org/info/origins.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“There is no part of me that is not of the gods!”
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
VIII : Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Elements.
Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)
“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
Quoted in "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures" - Page 74 - by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac - 2006
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell (1897–1972) American gossip journalist
Attributed
“I love you for making the difference in my life.”
Stedman Graham (1951) American businessman
Oprah Winfrey Surprise Spectacular
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
On marriage, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
“The friends of my friends are my friends.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“The world's become a little too mean.”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Saturday as Usual
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
“The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
"Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker (31 October 1977), final lines; also in I, Etcetera (1977)
Context: A curious word, wanderlust. I'm ready to go.
I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
Advice. Move along, let's get cracking, don’t hold me down, he travels fastest who travels alone. Let's get the show on the road. Get up, slugabed. I'm clearing out of here. Get your ass in gear. Sleep faster, we need the pillow.
She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
Everything. — then I won't have seen everything before it disappears.
Everywhere. I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
