Quotes of: Marriages Keyword

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

Sinbad

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

Anne Tyler

"What is marriage, mother?" "Child, it is spinning, having children, making money, and weeping.

Portuguese

This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage largely in terms of erotic love, then compatibility ...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride

Confessionally Yours

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Far from the Madding Crowd

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age. And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.

The Billion-Dollar Marriage Contract

Life is a gamble. There are no sureties. If you want something badly, you'd have to trust your heart and your instincts and then take a leap of faith.

The Billion-Dollar Marriage Contract

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference

Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Todd Tiahrt

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.

After the Storm

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.

The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Mrs. Miniver

For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a way to well-being?

Matrimonio: Vivi o morti