Top 1200 Romance In Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

I think the most ordinary romance is showing your partner the way you are and leaving behind the things that we cannot understand.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

I love being a part of a romantic comedy. I've done a lot of comedies but haven't always had a ton of romance in them.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support and security.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

If we're ever seen having a public spat in a coffee shop, I think the concept of romance will die.

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

Two best friends can totally say they love and adore each other, without any meaning of romance.

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

For my 23rd birthday I had a house party that was '90s themed and I dressed up as Alabama whirly from 'True Romance.'

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.