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Quotes About Union

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
~ Howard Dean
The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
~ Bill Goldberg
Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has put a man and a woman face to face?
~ Guy de Maupassant
Comme je l'ai dit, le but unique des efforts de tout bon musulman est l'union intime avec Dieu. Divers procédés mystiques conduisent à cet état parfait, et chaque confédération possède sa méthode d'entraînement. En général, cette méthode mène le simple adepte à un état d'abrutissement absolu, qui en fait un instrument aveugle et docile aux mains du chef.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Cambrant sous le ciel son ventre luisant et liquide, la mer, fiancée monstrueuse, attendait l'amant de feu qui descendait vers elle. Il précipitait sa chute, empourpré comme par le désir de leur embrassement. Il la joignit ; et, peu à peu, elle le dévora. Alors de l'horizon une fraîcheur accourut ; un frisson plissa le sein mouvant de l'eau comme si l'astre englouti eût jeté sur le monde un soupir d'apaisement.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Las ciencias, que siguen sus caminos propios, no han causado mucho daño hasta ahora; pero algún día la unión de esos disociados conocimientos nos abrirá a la realidad, y a la endeble posición que en ella ocupamos, perspectivas tan terribles que enloqueceremos ante la revelación, o huiremos de esa funesta luz, refugiándonos en la seguridad y la paz de una nueva edad de las tinieblas.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
What was marriage but sex plus property.
~ Hanif Kureishi
When a man wanted to wake to the same woman's face every morning, to spend a lot of nights holding her close, he might as well buy the ring.
~ Hannah Howell
The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
~ Martin Luther
But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.
~ Tim LaHaye
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
~ Vita Sackville-West
The Bourbons' "basic goal," Gore believed, "was to lure Northern capital and industry southward by promising what was to become a standard package: tax benefits; a large, docile, and non-union pool of cheap labor; minimal restrictions and regulations; and sympathetic local governments and police.
~ Sherrod Brown
Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but which, while it lasted, was free of the specific problems that bedevil the labor movement today when by force of circumstance it has been separated a few notches farther from the rank and file.
~ Sidney Lens
Marriage changed me. As it should. I signed myself up for a partnership.
~ Simon Reeve
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
~ Simone Weil
The benefits of the gospel are in Christ. They do not exist apart from him. They are ours only in him. They cannot be abstracted from him as if we ourselves could possess them independently of him.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
~ Mark Twain
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
~ Phil Spector
O month when they who love must love and wed.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Love is the door to eternity.
~ Thomas Merton
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
~ Alphonsus Liguori