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Quotes About Union

Since the artist cares in a peculiar way for the phase of experience in which union is achieved, he does not shun moments of resistance and tension. He rather cultivates them, not for their own sake but because of their potentialities, bringing to living consciousness an experience that is unified and total.
~ John Dewey
Art is the living and concrete proof that man is capable of restoring consciously, and thus on the plane of meaning, the union of sense, need, impulse and action characteristic of the live creature. The intervention of consciousness adds regulation, power of selection, and redisposition. Thus it varies the arts in ways without end. But its intervention also leads in time to the idea of art as a conscious idea—the greatest intellectual achievement in the history of humanity.
~ John Dewey
Our eye-beams twisted, and did threadOur eyes, upon one double string;So to entergraft our hands, as yetWas all the means to make us one,And pictures in our eyes to getWas all our propagation.
~ John Donne
Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
~ John Donne
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;
~ John Donne
lovers' hours be full eternity
~ John Donne
A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
~ Denis de Rougemont
We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.
~ Ernest Holmes
I've never bashed a union in my life.
~ Norman Tebbit
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
~ Saint Augustine
The goal of life is god realisation.
~ Sivananda
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
~ Cesar Chavez
With This Ring I give my all to you Now and my whole life through With this ring
~ Clyde Otis
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
~ Edward Gibbon
That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don't do as I say I'll ruin you.
~ Elena Ferrante
Questa è la situazione nella fabbrica dove sto io. Il sindacato non c'è mai entrato e gli operai sono nient'altro che povera gente sotto ricatto, soggetti alla legge del padrone, cioè io ti pago e quindi ti possiedo e possiedo la tua vita, la tua famiglia e tutto quello che ti circonda, e se non fai come ti dico ti rovino.
~ Elena Ferrante
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
~ Elena Kagan
Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different?
~ Anthony Marais
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
~ Anthony Trollope
He who dances on his wedding day has lost all his senses.
~ Anuj Somany
The cost of any couple's wedding is actually the lost of groom's freedom from the marriage day onward.
~ Anuj Somany
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
~ Ari Fleischer
He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.
~ Artemus Ward
I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
~ Flume