Married Quotes - Page 23

• If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

  Gary Bauer

  Sex, People, Definitions

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• The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

  Germaine Greer

  Couple, Real, Struggle

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

  Tim Kaine

  Couple, Virginia, Policy

  "Kaine-Kilgore Race Will Be Waged on GOP's Chosen Turf". www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2005.

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• I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

  Jon Hamm

  Needs, Feels, Being Married

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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• I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

  Chuck Robb

  Men, Vulnerable, Circumstances

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• The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.

  Kay Coles James

  Sex, Hard Work, Writing

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• Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Commitment, Self, Healthy

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• I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, Temptation, Together

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• I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

  John Entwistle

  Mean, Eighteen Years Old, America

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• We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.

  Mike Gravel

  War, Gay, Race

  Mike Gravel (2011). “A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It”, p.252, Seven Stories Press

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• I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, People, Age

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• Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

  Phil McGraw

  Marriage, Taught Us, People

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• Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

  William J Doherty

  Marriage, Couple, Sleep

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• Happiness is being married to your best friend.

  Barbara Weeks

  Friendship, Women, Your Best Friend

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• The statement I made in regard to, "Will can do whatever he wants," has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co-exist...Should we be married to individuals who can not be responsible for themselves and their families within their freedom? Should we be in relationships with individuals who we can not entrust to their own values, integrity, and LOVE...for us??? Here is how I will change my statement...Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Integrity, Mean, And Love

  Facebook post by Jada Pinkett Smith, www.facebook.com. April 15, 2013.

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• If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Priorities, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Believe, People, Choices

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• Wisdom married to immortal verse.

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Immortal, Verses

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.334

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• For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Catholic, Affirmation, States

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• Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

  Garry Shandling

  Marriage, Wife

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• He felt married to her, that was all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Marriage, Felt

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.116, Atlântico Press

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• The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Marriage, Failure

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Marriage”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

  Dave Willis

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 10, 2017

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• Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Time, Math, Mind

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• There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.

  Steven Moffat

  Husband, Boys, Men

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