Top 1200 Failed Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

Granted, there's been mistakes made immaturely, but a marriage is a marriage.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

We have a very strong marriage. We've been together for going on 32 years. I think we have the strongest marriage I know.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

Marriage is amazing, and I wish every person on this planet to have a blissful marriage.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.

It's terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what it was not?

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

Marriage is not easy, especially when it's a very public marriage. I know firsthand.

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.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

The institution of marriage has been something that - we have a very temperamental relationship, marriage and I. I've seen a lot of not great examples of it.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you