I had reconciled myself to a life without marriage or children for the sake of my career. And then my brothers got married. I real...ized I didn't even have a home, that in the future I couldn't do politics when I had to ask permission from their wives as to whether I could use the dining room or the telephone. I couldn't rent a home because a woman living on her own can be suspected of all kinds of scandalous associations. So keeping in mind that many people in Pakistan looked to me, I decided to make a personal sacrifice in what I thought would be, more or less, a loveless marriage, a marriage of convenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strong... Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You weep, you weep for the sun an Image. ...... the wind calls hideously, woe for the children's fate, woe for a palace rent, woe, woe for these who spent life-blood in hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven with...out rent or seam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really... all the forms of good-breeding point that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.... An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're t...old how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »