Marriage Quotes
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I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law.
Kellyanne Conway
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There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
Elizabeth Flock
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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I eventually came to define my marriage counseling, no matter what the cultural mix, as trying to help people separate so that they would not have to “separate.”
Edwin H. Friedman
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According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.
Kay Arthur
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To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to say I force you, legally, to love someone. It's like saying, you know, you have to go and love another - you have to go - you know, you have to go marry someone. It's like an arranged marriage.
Caitlin Moran
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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
Maxine Kumin
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In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.
Alana Stewart
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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
Catherine Helen Spence
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
Louis C. K.
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When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'
Benjamin Hart
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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
Esther Williams
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Once both gay marriage and marijuana are finally legal, those of you against them are not invited to the really fun parties I'm gonna throw.
Zach Braff
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When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
Honore de Balzac
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Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
Brigitte Bardot
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Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
Alexandra Fuller
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We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.
Barack Obama
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
Julia Child
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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.
Honore de Balzac
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I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman.
Sarah Palin
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There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
John Thune
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Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
Bob Marley
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
John Stuart Mill