John Updike Quotes
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.John Updike
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
Natasha Trethewey -
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier -
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
Jack Kingston -
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
Nas -
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
Candace Bushnell -
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Halle Berry -
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
Nancy Pearcey -
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
Samantha Shannon -
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
Manny Pacquiao
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
Qandeel Baloch -
I'm in an interracial marriage.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
Ilan Stavans -
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence King -
Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
Kate Mulgrew
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
Naval Ravikant -
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
Anne Fortier -
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
William Faulkner -
Racism is a physical experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.'
Randy Pausch -
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike