A Quote by Iris Murdoch

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Iris Murdoch

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Marriage Anywhere Get Public

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Iris Murdoch
Irish - Novelist
July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Anita Loos

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

Iris Murdoch

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Charles Olson

Marriage is not easy, especially when it's a very public marriage. I know firsthand.

Cynthia Bailey

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

Ken Cuccinelli

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.

Rebecca Traister

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

T. J. Perkins

A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

Michael Glawogger

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Gertrude Stein

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

Salvador de Madariaga

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

Charles Bukowski

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

Iris Murdoch

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Robert Reich

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Antonia Fraser

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.