Couple Quotes - Page 22

• ... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Hands, People, Letters

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• I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Marriage, Book, Reading

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• For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.

  Carol Gilligan

  Mother, Children, War

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• A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Children, Moving, Wind

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

  Susan Powter

  Two, Principles, Failing

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• It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

  Brian Bonsall

  People, Crowds, Annoying

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• Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus

  Aaron Hoopes

  Focus, Want, Calm

  Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes

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• Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

  Alafair Burke

  Benches, Standing Out, Illegal

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Believe, Cutting

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

  Dave Sitek

  Let It Go, Minutes

  "TV on the Radio". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. October 2, 2006.

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• I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

  Derek Theler

  Sports, School, College

  "Derek Theler Talked About Season 2 Of 'Baby Daddy' With Us". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. May 29, 2013.

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• I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Looks, Film

  "Jean-Marc Vallee Takes on More". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 30, 2013.

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• Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Years, People, Mars

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• Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Guy, Historic

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• There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Sex, Opposites, Usa

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Thinking, Energy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?

  Tucker Carlson

  Hurt, Wind, Order

  "The Situation with" Tucker Carlson, January 12, 2006.

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• The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Real, Keys

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

  Gary Bauer

  Years, Civilization, Definitions

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• It's funny when you get married, you do find other couples to hang out with.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Married, Hanging Out

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

  George Jones

  Years, Giving, Want

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

  George Jones

  Artist, Years, Two

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

  Carli Lloyd

  Play, Balls, Lines

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• There are so many numerical financial flaws in ObamaCare. Young people realize I'll take the penalty. I'll deal with whatever it takes for the next couple of years. Maybe a couple years down the road, they will start to pay.

  Eric Bolling

  Years, Obamacare, People

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Bad Friend, Years

  Interview with Andrew Friedman, toqueland.com. May 2, 2014.

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