I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.
Interpretation
The quote expresses admiration and gratitude for a partner who is also a best friend.
In this quote, William J. Clinton reflects on the deep bond he shares with his wife, highlighting the qualities that make her special to him. He expresses hope that her decision to prioritize her own career over his advice is one she feels positive about, emphasizing mutual respect and support in their relationship. This speaks to the importance of friendship and admiration within a loving partnership.
In practice
In a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of marrying a friend.
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.
We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.
That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
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