Marriage Didn't Work Quotes

#1. Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#2. Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

Peter Biskind

#3. Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.

Fredrik Backman

#4. The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

#5. We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

Joe

#6. One does not bargain over inches of evil.

Ayn Rand

#7. Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn't.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#8. Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Christine Baranski

#9. I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Diane Abbott

#10. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Shain

#11. Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#12. I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.

Holly Madison

#13. I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Alice Walker

#14. I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bethenny Frankel

#15. I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.

Frank Skinner

#16. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

Albert Einstein

#17. How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

Al Yankovic

#18. I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

Vonda Shepard

#19. Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don't always have to take things so serious, you know.

Mickey Rourke

#20. I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Jimmy Carter

#21. Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#22. Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

Ben Stein

#23. We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love ... that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Connie Sellecca

#25. Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

Andrea Arnold

#26. Something had happened. The bath towels knew it, the bathtub and the toilet knew it. My father turned and walked out the door. He knew it. It was my last beating. From him.

Charles Bukowski