Quotes About Waiting Until Marriage

#1. I'm a writer. I'm a Christian. I like sex. But I haven't had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn't mean I want my characters to.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#2. And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

Clement Of Alexandria

#3. New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.

Bill Maher

#4. Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Mike Myers

#5. I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last.

Anne Sexton

#6. Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.

Eric Ludy

#7. Sabrina: "But you don't believe in marriage."

Linus: "Yes, I do. It's why I've never married.

Samuel Taylor

#8. A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Wendell Berry

#9. Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.

Howard Jacobson

#10. Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."

"Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.

Sylvain Neuvel

#11. Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married. Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to not do it.

Rebecca Lee

#12. Respect is more valuable then the amount of times guys flirt with you.
It's better to have one trustworthy real man then any amount of boys interested in you.
The "cool" guys may not notice or date you but the right one will marry you.

Rachel Hamilton

#13. Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#14. If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

Ed Gillespie

#15. If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

John Le Carre

#17. It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

Jim Gaffigan

#18. See marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.

Jean Webster

#19. Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on - otherwise he is useless. "For most men that purpose revolves around marriage and children

David Gemmell

#20. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Criss Jami

#21. The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Thomas A Kempis

#22. The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

William Dampier

#23. But some characters in books are really real
Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

Dodie Smith

#24. My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

Evelyn Lauder

#25. Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

Ewan McGregor

#26. After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Earl Campbell

#27. The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

Gregory Maguire

#28. It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

Barbara Castle

#29. In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese

Fernando Sabino

#30. Even most churches don't really know what to do with their singles. They teach classes on "preparing for marriage," "waiting for marriage," and "praying for marriage," but what about just honoring exactly who you are in this moment instead of always prepping for the next phase of life?

Mandy Hale

#31. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Ronald Reagan

#32. Are you two inseparable now?" I asked you.
You laughed. "Don't you know, Evan? People are always separable."
I wanted to say I had once thought the two of us were inseparable.
But that would have only proven your point.

David Levithan

#33. The problem with waiting to get your life in order before considering marriage is that you really have no idea when your life will be in order, if ever.

Lisa Anderson

#34. One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you.

Robert Breault

#35. Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

Fernando Pessoa

#36. Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.

Gail Collins

#37. As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then

Louise Penny

#38. The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

Paul Farmer

#39. He remained silent, and she gentled her voice. I never planned for this. I never planned to make this a real marriage. But I love you, Nick. I've just been waiting for the right time to tell you. And I'm sorry I sprung it on you like this, but I didn't want to wait. Please say something. Anything.

Jennifer Probst

#40. You have a part of me that no one, and I mean no one, has ever had before.

J.B. McGee