Divorced Quotes - Page 12

• Many lovers have been divorced
  By having what is free enforced.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Lovers, Has Beens

  Robert Frost (1943). “A Witness Tree”

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• Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Humanity, Prosperity

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• You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Emotional

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• Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Women, Working Parents

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• Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

  Merle Haggard

  Cost, Reason, Nelson

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Sex, Love Is, Thieves

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• I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Vanity, Wife

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.75

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• What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

  James Alan Gardner

  Reality, Thinking, Firsts

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

  Sheri L. Dew

  Divorce, Etc, Categories

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• I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

  Agatha Christie

  Fashion, Mistake, Divorce

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

  Delia Ephron

  Divorce, Jail, Fantastic

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are in here tonight and you have never contemplated suicide…you've never truly been in love. If you're in here tonight and you have never contemplated murder…you've never been divorced.

  Christopher

  Suicide, Tonight, Murder

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• Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.

  Christopher Penczak

  Mean, Doe, Earth

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• Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

  Nancy Kress

  Events, Plot, Coats

  Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

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• My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Healing, Home, Boys

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way.

  Teddy Thompson

  Dad, Parent, Trying

  "Morning Becomes Eclectic" with Chris Douridas, www.kcrw.com. April 4, 2011.

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• When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'

  Marie Osmond

  Stars, Kids, People

  Interview with Patricia Sheridan, www.post-gazette.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Home, Second Chance

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• I think a lot of people are married to people that they're not romantic with anymore. I just didn't ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on.

  Cameron Diaz

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

  Deb Caletti

  Holiday, Kids, Parent

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• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

  J. Cole

  Parent, Together, Remember

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Board Of Education

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• There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not require the university for sustenance. And there are still places in the world where there is lively poetry communities largely divorced from academia. That's been destroyed in the US. In the US, famously, there were a lot of counter-spaces that lasted into the 60s and 70s, like the Black Arts Movement. They were systematically broken, often by the government, and the workshop arose in their place.

  Joshua Clover

  Art, Broken, Community

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• In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

  Shelley Winters

  Stars, Males, Female

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• I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

  Freya Stark

  Hate, Book, Wife

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