Marriage Choice Quotes

#1. There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

Kristin Kimball

#2. Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

Cory Booker

#3. I am perpetually indecisive on even the most mundane decisions, and I couldn't imagine leaving such an important choice to other people

Aziz Ansari

#4. Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

Pink

#5. Agape love, on the other hand, is unselfish, unconditional, and unstoppable. It is based upon choice and commitment, not feelings. So unless this kind of love forms the foundation of your marriage, the wear and tear of time could destroy it.

Alex Kendrick

#6. All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.

P.D. James

#7. Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

James Sheridan Knowles

#8. God gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him.

Rochunga Pudaite

#9. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

Liane Moriarty

#11. You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Barbara De Angelis

#13. Single is a choice, just like Married is.

Mandy Hale

#14. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Amy Bloom

#15. Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.

Magnus Flyte

#16. Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

Rob Liano

#17. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!

Ngina Otiende

#18. Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.

Rachael Allen

#19. For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Al Goldstein

#20. The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Franz Grillparzer

#21. Marriage is a financial partnership. Marriage has nothing to do with love. Love is a choice we can make every day.

Shonda Rhimes

#22. Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

James Dobson

#23. I want him." I had not said that to Jamie at our marriage; I had not wanted him, then. But I had said it since, three times; in two moments of choice at Craigh na Dun, and once again at Lallybroch.
"I want him." I wanted him still, and nothing whatever could stand between us.

Diana Gabaldon

#24. Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

Bruce C. Hafen

#25. Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the forest.

Evelyn Waugh

#26. You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it.

Faith Hill

#27. You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Roger Stone

#28. Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare

#29. I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

Gloria Steinem

#30. Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.

Maile Meloy

#31. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#32. So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God's glory in it.

Jennie Allen

#33. ... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual's private choice.

G.A. Hauser

#34. The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#36. Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.

Anthony Liccione

#37. I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.

Michelle Richmond

#38. Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

Amber Heard

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

Danny Silk

#41. When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Donald Johanson

#42. According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

Kay Arthur

#43. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte

#44. Happiness in marriage is a choice you have to make: fight for, protect, pursue. It doesn't happen to you, you make it happen.

Ngina Otiende

#45. No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can't have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice -

Meg Cabot

#46. In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

Boyd K. Packer

#47. Why is it harder to leave a loveless marriage than a loving one? Because a loveless marriage is born of desperation, while a loving one is born of choice. . .

Anonymous

#48. I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

Frans De Waal

#49. Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Jane Austen

#50. The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.

Scott Lively

#51. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Charlotte Bronte

#52. Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#53. We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

James E. Faust

#54. I am one of those who can realize themselves fully and bloom only when they form part of a couple. Even though I understand your stand, even though I respect the choice of liberated women, I have never conceived of happiness outside of marriage.

Mariama Ba

#55. An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Jane Austen

#56. I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

J.D. Robb