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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.


Patrick O'Brian

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DOUGLAS ADAMS Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
ANTISTHENES Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
AUSON Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
JOSEPH MCCABE The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
STEPHEN JAY GOULD Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an im...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.
IBYCUS When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES COUSTEAU When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give t...
TECUMSEH SHAWNEE CHIEF 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attra...
JANE AUSTEN When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
THOMAS SCOTT When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone
THOMAS SCOTT The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
GEORGE THOROGOOD There's no legitimate reason the sexes should be separated in racing. All Patrick is doing is showin...
DONNA LOPIANO We are absolutely thrilled to have Patrick joining us this year. He has been described as one of the...
DEBBIE MCGRATH The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one rea...
ALMA GLUCK How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
JESSICA SEINFELD There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon...
WILLIAM ROTSLER There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon...
DAVID TYSON GENTRY A man who has understood the girl's feelings and emotions; female's likings and love; lady's needs a...
ANUJ SOMANY Patrick is an outstanding young man who works very hard. He has unlimited potential because of his t...
DAVID MARTIN History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not ari...
CHRISTOPHER BOND I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip nove...
JOHN UPDIKE The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one rea...
ALMA GLUCK Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
IAN FLEMING When we love there is no reason why.
VANNA BONTA If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
LEO TOLSTOY Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
PAUL THEROUX How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion t...
ALBERT CAMUS It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, m...
EDMUND MORGAN In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in...
CARLTON CUSE When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in eac...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA We've gone from a situation where retailers were wildly excited about the prospects for 1996 to one ...
BOB BUCHANAN The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI My friendship has no expiration date.
KēVENS Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt wit...
PADMA LAKSHMI People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of t...
MARK TWAIN Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasti...
MARILYN MONROE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
CASSANDRA CLARE Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
PETER BORDEN The reason for his amazing speed in martial arts is, he would practice, "Liking", "Just posted photo...
DR HITESH C SHETH We are truly excited to be selected to compete in one of the most prestigious fall tournaments of th...
BILL RICHARDS I think Patrick is better off when he can just concentrate on one guy. He did a very good job chasin...
TUBBY SMITH Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
CHANNING POLLOCK Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments
CHANNING POLLOCK Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake
ROBERT MOSES Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares ...
LORD BYRON The path of spirituality is a path where one has to keep on reducing his wishes for worldly happines...
DADA BHAGWAN Andy: Marriages don't work when one partner is happy and the other is miserable. They only work when...
FORGET PARIS The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
C.S. LEWIS He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear wo...
SARAH J. MAAS The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
JAMES M. BARRIE I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a sup...
JAN CARLZON Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you ne...
JESSYE NORMAN Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need...
JESSYE NORMAN Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHAL We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our...
CASSANDRA CLARE When Patrick gets on a roll like that ...
BOBBY PERRY All Patrick employees who went to Pacific National when the joint venture was formed in 2002 were re...
CHRIS CORRIGAN It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be ...
H. P LOVECRAFT I don't like it when people say, 'You are the new Patrick'. No I'm not. I'm Cesc Fabregas.
FRANCESC FABREGAS Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become...
HANS JONAS One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting...
P. D. JAMES No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meetin...
P. D. JAMES The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend...
LARRY FLYNT The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.
TOBA BETA There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
MOLLY MCGEE The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning i...
JANNE TELLER My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so mu...
KARISMA KAPOOR For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
ERMA BOMBECK For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
DAVID FINCHER One thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart, and kind of knows when you ...
JOE GIBBS Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
KENNETH BRANAGH Life's irony;One of the biggest terminator of sex is marriage,in life most times marriage kills sex,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an unco...
HERBERT HOOVER You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure ...
DAVID SHORE When a friendship is important enough, with mutual respect, most obstacles provide the opportunity t...
JUDY DIPPEL The most important thing for South Africans is that whatever its value, the rand remain stable rathe...
IAN DAVIDSON [But the most convincing determinant was the] fun ... I found a passion for coaching and liking it, ...
WAYNE GRETZKY The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
E. M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
EMILE M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
EMIL M. CIORAN Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to br...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No circumstance is uncommon to a man.
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PATRICK DEMPSEY If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
PATRICK DEMPSEY The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed...
PATRICK DEMPSEY You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
PATRICK DEMPSEY I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
PATRICK DEMPSEY People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
PATRICK DEMPSEY I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDre...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as o...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it w...
PATRICK DEMPSEY When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
PATRICK DEMPSEY When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that b...
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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