Marriage Quotes
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When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.
Louis Theroux
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On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.
C. S. Lewis
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It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
Deborah Moggach
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel Osteen
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
Hedy Lamarr
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Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
Alan Brennert
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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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There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.
Dacia Maraini
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Sean Penn
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In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
Marcia Gay Harden
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Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.
Lee Radziwill
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Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn
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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
Elizabeth Aston
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Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.