"I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip"
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"I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' And I said, 'I don't feel good.' And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she says, 'What's the matter?' And I told her. I said, 'I just thought about that execution that I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved in.' And what it was, something triggered within, and it just, everybody - all of these executions all sprung forward."
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"I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot."
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"Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love."
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"Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins"
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"I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented."
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"It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids."
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"Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs."
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"A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together."
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"I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good."
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"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."
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"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently."
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"A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?"
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"If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion."
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"A man's tie should never be louder than his wife."
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"The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with."
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"If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second."
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"One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man."
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"I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino."
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"Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God."
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