Quotes About Great Marriages

#1. The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Helen Mirren

#2. Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

Isabel Allende

#3. Super-confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Matthew Weiner

#4. Great marriages are made when husbands and wives don't allow cultural expectations to dictate their life decisions or their day-to-day interactions. A one-of-a-kind value system is forged, blended

Fawn Weaver

#5. Great marriages have an ease about them, a back-and-forth nonreactive, nondefensive, open, and ongoing flow in which you never stop talking and figuring it out together.

Rob Bell

#6. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Jenna Elfman

#7. If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

Joel Osteen

#8. Great marriages are like the Higgs Boson particle, its existence has been theorized, but no one has ever seen one.

Dov Davidoff

#9. Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

Anita Renfroe

#10. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

#11. Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Jim Rogers

#12. For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Robert Rainy

#13. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

Bernard DeVoto

#14. I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#15. Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.
"No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Mark Ruffalo

#17. Nothing great comes easy. Nothing amazing comes without hard work. And that is especially true with marriages.

Lucian Bane

#18. It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

Carmen Electra

#19. You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

Oscar Robertson

#20. We forgive not because it's easy or the right thing to do, but that the choice to forgive is in itself powerful. It's an affirmation, a willingness to take life on life's terms. And a privilege that no one can take from you. It

Kathleen Tessaro

#21. Weddings are great, but they mostly end up in marriages and that is the problem.

Radovan Kavicky

#22. The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

Kamala Harris

#23. Ideas are always more important than money.

Jack Layton

#24. She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called 'settlers', women who chose love and fleeting passion that turned to dull, lifeless marriages over a career and independence.

Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

#25. I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Kenneth Tynan

#26. I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.

Linda Ronstadt

#27. As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and marriage counselors. Marriage is dead. Long live marriage!

Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig