Quotes About Arranged Marriages

#1. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.

Jemima Khan

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.

Shilpa Shetty

#4. I would separate marriages into rational and irrational and I would included both love and arranged marriages as irrational marriage.
Rational marriage for me is when you can really understand by mind not by heart.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

Sakshi Tanwar

#6. Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.

Manju Kapur

#7. Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

Siddharth Katragadda

#8. In the Renaissance world of arranged marriages, there were no romantic proposals on bended knee - only notaries and contracts.

Elizabeth Lev

#9. I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

Salman Rushdie

#10. I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

Ranbir Kapoor

#11. While arranged marriages are no longer the norm ...

Anonymous

#12. I'd rather you said 'I love you' because you were so full of love for me that you couldn't keep it in.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.

Kresley Cole

#15. How you deal with life's trials is part of the development of your faith. Strength comes when you remember that you have a divine nature, an inheritance of infinite worth.

Russell M. Nelson

#16. A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#17. Are your thoughts empowering or limiting?

Bob Proctor

#18. Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. In terms of sheer annoyance, nobody I have ever known has compared to Sare Worthington, saver of the environment, native of Portland, Maine, forever wishing that she were from Portland, Oregon. Bitch should have just moved there.

Caroline Kepnes

#20. Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals - convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.

Thomas Lynch

#21. Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

Ja Rule

#22. Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

Amit Kalantri

#23. I burn my neck with a fondue skewer while you watch The Cosby Show on my bed.

Merritt Tierce

#24. In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.

Brian Jacques

#25. Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

Louis Leakey

#26. Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

Alexis Denisof

#27. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.

Nayomi Munaweera

#28. If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable.

Christopher Hitchens

#29. Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

Jared Harris

#30. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.

Padma Lakshmi

#31. Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed

Maggie Stiefvater