Quotes of: Marriages Keyword

Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in...

Middlemarch

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very highest values, and thoughtful people...

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

College feminists made fun of skyscrapers, saying they were phallic symbols. They said the same thing about space rockets, even though, if you stopped to think about it, rockets were shaped the way they were not because of phallocentrism but because ...

The Marriage Plot

You realize that is you allow me to court you, all your opposition to marriage is going to have to be reconsidered." She smiled, feigning innocence."What opposition to marriage?" "Excellent." "But I'm thinking we should have a long courtship." "Why?"...

The Season

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no subst...

When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything

I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses, and his style of conducting his businesses, a...

J.D. Robb

Vincent Hanna: My life's a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father's this large-type asshole. I got a wife, we're passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage - my third - because I spend all my time chasing guy...

Heat

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The Complete Essays

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...

Climats

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

Commencement

The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.

The Confessions of a Misfit

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Couplehood

I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.

Clockwork Prince

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Eat, Pray, Love

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Emma

It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck.

Frances and Bernard

It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.

Freddy and Fredericka

...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.

Governess