Nicholas Sparks Quotes
Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.
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I am not irresponsible.
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Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
