Evan Esar Quotes
Some couples divorce because of a misunderstanding; others, because they understand each other too well.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
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It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.
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I am strong. I lived through a divorce, separation from my family. I never let it break me down. I’m not an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. I’ve floated through the disaster of my past clean. I arrived here undamaged.
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Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
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It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.
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I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
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What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.
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Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.
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Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
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Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.
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Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges.
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Rehab is like a divorce.
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You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.
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Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.
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At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstanding; others, because they understand each other too well.
