Marriage And Relationships Quotes

#1. I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

Tichina Arnold

#2. Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

Timothy Murphy

#3. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#5. And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.

Courtney Maum

#6. I looked up and she said, "You have to believe I did everything a reasonable person would do. Maybe I didn't reach my hands into toilet water, but I did everything else I could.

Charlie Close

#7. Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

Suzanne Finnamore

#8. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

T.C. Boyle

#9. A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.

T.D. Jakes

#10. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.

Sheree' Griffin

#11. Strategic partnership is the truest foundation for marriage and intimacy. Strategic thinking does not assume atomistic individuals; indeed, Austen argues that strategic thinking in concert forms the basis of the closest human relationships.

Michael Suk-Young Chwe

#12. The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

John Ridley

#13. Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

John M. Gottman

#14. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

Julieanne O'Connor

#15. Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.

Chad Kultgen

#16. A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.

Popo Santos

#18. I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.

Crystal Woods

#19. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.

Julian Barnes

#20. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.

Diane Ackerman

#21. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Rob Bell

#22. The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

Pawan Mishra

#23. Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out.

Paul Murray

#24. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.

John Eldredge

#25. Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.

Kimberly Novosel

#26. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it.

Anthony Liccione

#28. Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#29. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Alison Bruce

#30. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

Howard Mittelmark

#31. A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.

Habeeb Akande

#32. I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.

Robert Mankoff

#33. Getting married is easy, having sex is easier, but findings someone who can stimulate your mind and make love to your soul, that is rare.

Habeeb Akande

#34. Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.

Gayle Roper

#35. In the beginning Dave and Marlene's relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn't always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had been off the scale.

Jackson Radcliffe

#36. Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

Elizabeth Peters

#37. I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

Fred Hammond

#38. To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

Shya Kane

#39. He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.

Crystal Woods

#40. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

Nike Thaddeus

#41. Let's not forget it's you and me vs. the problem ... NOT you vs. me.

Steve Maraboli

#42. So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,
My knight to defend my claimed heart.
I need no crown, just your last name and a ring
And the promise you'll never depart.

Phar West Nagle

#43. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#44. Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

Emily Giffin

#45. Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.

Carlos Wallace

#46. Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven't lived with them yet.

Heather Chapple

#47. Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

Daisy Goodwin

#48. Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#49. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.

Anonymous

#50. God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

Rick Warren

#51. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

Gary Chapman

#52. I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Paulo Coelho

#53. In this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

Lois Wyse

#54. I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.

Leo Tolstoy

#55. For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon's personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus's were merely whims.

Panio Gianopoulos

#56. They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Suzanne Finnamore

#57. Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman's heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us ... or they'll never be able to borrow our car.

Emma Daley

#59. She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

Sage Steadman

#60. I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

Michael Jackson

#61. From open sea she's chosen me
and dashed the hopes of many.
A life with her is worth the hopes
my love for her may bury.

Uzoma C. Azuonye

#62. I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Jack Nicholson

#63. I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit ... DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

Brandi L. Bates

#64. That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other.

Otis Moss III

#65. A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.

Jennifer Ott

#66. This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

Ed Miliband

#67. But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Margaret George

#68. Sometimes I look at him
and I want to get on my best heels.
Sometimes I look at him
and I want to be a lesbian.
He says that I'm too moody.

Casey Renee Kiser

#69. The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

Alice Walker

#70. It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

Ian McKellen

#71. Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really be braver than the rest - as if freedom were ultimately a matter of courage, of irreverence and honesty, of rebelliousness.

Daniel Bullen

#72. Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Nancy Mitford

#73. Outside of our relationship with the Lord, marriage is right next to it. It's an important relationship and you hear that analogy all the time. There's no better one than that for sure.

Mike Fisher

#74. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel De Montaigne

#75. Women withhold sex, then men make it boring and soon their marriage is over.

Linda Alfiori

#76. Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

Howard W. Hunter

#77. Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#78. Men marry. Women wed.

Raheel Farooq

#79. Unconditional love doesn't happen overnight, it is a gradual process. love, live and let others do the same.

Sahithi Setikam

#80. All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx)

Eugene Kamenka

#81. Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

Anthony Marais

#82. She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

J.K. Rowling

#83. In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great.

Ilya Atani

#84. To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.

Julieanne O'Connor

#85. Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

Pope Francis

#86. The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

Jess C. Scott

#87. I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.

Alessandra Torre

#88. Rebellion, waywardness, lack of discipline, confusion, and conflict prevent happy relationships within the home. But God is interested in your family, your marriage, your children. He shows us the ideals and the goals for the family.

Billy Graham

#89. In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Richard Price

#90. Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing baby's diaper

Casey Renee Kiser

#91. I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.

Dick Cheney

#92. Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules.

Julieanne O'Connor

#93. I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.

Matthew Weiner

#94. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it's terrifying to people and they think you're a monster.

Sara Quin

#95. We live with mutual thought processes in relationships; less with the physical attractions, less with the fame, less with the social status, and less with any sort of materialistic attributes.

Rajasaraswathii

#96. Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#97. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Bonnie Eaker Weil

#98. The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

Mark W. Boyer

#99. At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't.

Crystal Woods

#100. True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

Chana Levitan