I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.
I'm not big on commissions.
In my family, they were all big boozers.
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
I was a big Oasis fan.
We can fight Big Industry.
'X-Files' wasn't a big show in England.
I have this really big face.
I was not a big comic-book reader.
I want a big church wedding.
The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
