Quotes of: Marriages Keyword

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.

Letters to Emma Bowlcut

Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness—a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both.

Letters on Life

Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

The Story of a Marriage

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor.

Sita's Sister

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

The Power of Praying: Help for a Woman's Journey Through Life

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Prayers for Sale

They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?

The Paris Wife

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

The Ruins of Ambrai

I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more.

The Runaway Countess

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again. - Kristine

Wild Rose (Kristine Series, #11)

But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave.

Werewolves In Their Youth

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

Zen and Sex

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Hugh Jackman

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

Jerry Weller

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

Michele Bachmann

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.

Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

First Comes Marriage

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Soulless

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

Philip Larkin