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Marriage Quotes


"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy."


"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."


"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."


"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."


"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."


"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage."


"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years."


"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."


"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."


"Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood."


"And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous."


"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"


"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."


"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."


"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."


"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."


"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."


"Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost."


"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."


"I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse."


"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."


"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."


"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."


"I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do."


"The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution."


"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman."


"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."


"I may as well say it, I have been married three times."


"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."


"I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter."


"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."
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