Paul Coleridge quotes

“Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.”
-- Paul Coleridge

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“Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

“Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3).”

“Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.”

“Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.”

“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”

“I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.”

Source : "A Stormy Relationship With the Scale: an Interview With Al Roker". Interview with Bonnie Taub-Dix, bonnietaubdix.com.

“We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”

“Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.”

“But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.”

“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”