Top 1200 Marriage Contract Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

What I did sign was a tentative contract with Impact Wrestling when they were still Impact. That contract had a clause for me, because I was already working on some stuff in other areas of television. That clause basically said that if something else in television were to happen for me, they can't be uncooperative.

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.

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

Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

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

It's none of my business what somebody's [orientation is]. Now when somebody makes it my business, like on gay marriage, I'm going to stand up and say I don't support gay marriage. I support marriage between men and women.

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

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

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

The only thing I took advantage of at Extreme Rules was an opportunity to cash in my Money in the Bank contract, which I did successfully, well within the rules. You know, Jeff knows this, you know this, the fans know this: nowhere on that contract does it say, under any circumstances, 'Do not cash in on Jeff Hardy.'

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!

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

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

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

So I called and said, 'Mommy, I'm doing a political film with Jean-Luc Godard. You have to come and sign the contract.' She thought I was lying, so she hung up the phone. But then she came the next day, even though she had never taken an airplane in her life. She came to Paris and she signed my contract.

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

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

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

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

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.

People told me it was a mistake to marry so young but you can't go into a marriage thinking that because the divorce statistics are so high your marriage won't last. You have to work at it day by day. Though certainly marriage isn't a final, heavy commitment, like signing your life away. It's the type of thing you can always get out of.

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

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

I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.

Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.

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

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected.

Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.

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

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?

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

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have never said that love is destroyed by marriage. How can marriage destroy love? Yes, it is destroyed in marriage, but it is destroyed by you, not by marriage. It is destroyed by the partners. How can marriage destroy love? It is you who destroy it, because you don't know what love is. You simply pretend to know, you simply hope that you know, you dream that you know, but you don't know what love is. Love has to be learned; it is the greatest art there is.

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

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

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

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