Forced Marriages Quotes

#1. ... evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.

Karen Swallow Prior

#2. the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Jane Addams

#4. ...this feeling that the air was tearing itself apart.

David Mark

#5. Are there labor camps here?" he asked.
"No," she said.
"Mandatory marriages, forced-criticism sessions, loudspeaker?"
She shook her head.
"Then I'm not sure I could ever feel free here," he said.

Adam Johnson

#6. I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

David Stern

#7. Trust and faith in one another makes us more than what we could be without it.

J.F. Smith

#8. In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

Shaun Hick

#9. I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

Jesse Eisenberg

#10. Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

George Gordon Byron

#11. Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

Ken Hitchcock

#12. We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

Rand Paul

#13. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

Brian Tracy

#16. Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

Victor Borge

#17. Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson