Marriage Challenges Quotes

#1. I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Elizabeth Edwards

#2. Mercy sweetens marriage. Where it is absent, two people flog one another over everything from failure to fix the faucet to phone bills. But where it is present, marriage grows sweeter and more delightful, even in the face of challenges, setbacks, and the persistent effects of our remaining sin.

Dave Harvey

#3. In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.

Jean Marzollo

#4. To have a caring and committed heart toward someone - a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person's state of health, appearance, reputation, finances, troubles, or challenges - that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked.

Kevin Powers

#6. The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challenges the sanctity of marriage.

John Rawls

#7. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#9. If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. This is a book that looks at how we can use the challenges, joys, struggles, and celebrations of marriage to draw closer to God and to grow in Christian character.

Gary L. Thomas

#11. For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

Nathaniel Branden

#12. I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.

Hillary Clinton

#13. The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

Dale Berra

#14. I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Al Franken

#15. The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.

Murray Krieger

#16. We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.

Andie MacDowell

#17. Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

John Metcalf

#18. Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

Gabriel Campisi

#19. The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

Karl Popper

#20. Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. Be confident in who you are, regardless of what you don't have. The more confident you are, the more open you become to share your fears and challenges with your partner.

E'yen A. Gardner

#22. Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone.

Dean Koontz

#23. Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.

Kangana Ranaut

#24. I had to learn how to be faithful. When I was dating around and moving from woman to woman, I did not understand and know how to be faithful. Subsequently, once I entered into marriage, I had to learn how to be with one woman. For me, that was the biggest challenge of all.

Tony Gaskins

#25. The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...

Ruth Stout