Quotes About Long Term Marriage

#1. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

Lori Gottlieb

#2. The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

Will Self

#3. Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#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. In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Andy Garcia

#6. Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?'
'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.'
'The city still has working phone booths?'
'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

Kate Morton

#7. I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.

Dick Cheney

#8. We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

Ming-Dao Deng

#9. The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married.

Jacqueline Patricks

#10. I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

Elisa Albert

#11. Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

Jenifer Lewis

#13. Think of a Foundational tour as a form of marriage - a long-term relationship that both parties anticipate will be permanent, in which both parties assume a moral obligation to try hard to make it work before ending the relationship.

Reid Hoffman

#14. Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

Robert Dallek

#15. No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

Elisabeth Elliot

#16. A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Edward Abbey

#17. It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

#18. It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

Alan Wilson

#19. I'll tell you what," he said. "I can't promise you anything long-term. I can't get past my marriage. But I like you more than I care to, and I'm not interested in anyone else right now.

C.D. Reiss

#20. There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

Shane Claiborne

#21. Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her.

Nick Vujicic

#22. On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone.

Chelsea Peretti

#23. It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

Garrett Hedlund

#24. Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.

Martin Amis

#25. Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.

Ben Bernanke

#26. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.

Julian Barnes

#27. God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it ...
It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.

Joshua Harris

#28. I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.

Rashida Jones

#29. Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

Daisy Goodwin

#30. The words grace and gracious are used 169 times in the Bible.

Anonymous

#31. Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

Elizabeth George

#32. Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter into it with a lack of maturity and knowledge. The growing number of divorces shows how imperative it is that young people be adequately prepared for marriage.

Billy Graham

#33. Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.

Tim Matheson

#34. The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I could do that. She'd lost so much already, she was reckless. All

Emma Donoghue

#35. This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

Ed Miliband

#36. The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

Alice Walker

#37. Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database.

Jeffrey Needham

#38. I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Mike Nichols

#39. Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge.

C. G. Jung