Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.

Swami Vivekananda

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Swami Vivekananda

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

Swami Vivekananda

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

Swami Vivekananda

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Swami Vivekananda

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

Tom Peters

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

Tom Robbins

Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

Tom Lehrer

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

Todd Gitlin

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

Toni Collette

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

Stephen Covey

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Stephen Covey

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

Tony Hsieh

We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.

Tony Hsieh

Your culture is your brand.

Tony Hsieh

I'd rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.

Tommy Lee Jones

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

Steve McQueen

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

Steve Ballmer

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

Stendhal

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

Shirley Temple

By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.

Shirley Hazzard

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ...

Shelley Long

I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

Steven Pressfield

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

Steven Morrissey

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

Steven Curtis Chapman

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Steven Weinberg

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.