
Top 34 Selfish Marriage Quotes
#1. Aren't you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children's Place at your age? I'm sure there's some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
Paul Reiser
#3. I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.
Nicolas Cage
#4. I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.
Jerry West
#5. Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Aisha Tyler
#6. Because of you, Michael, my heart begins to grow wings.
C. Kennedy
#7. In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
#8. I have fallen so many times I should be a master of soil composition, and bruises.
Myself
#9. Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
Sidney Poitier
#10. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#12. Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.
Lewis Wolpert
#13. My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
Alec Baldwin
#14. As for him, he took the path which shortens, - the Gospel's.
Victor Hugo
#15. A broken women has nothing to offer a whole man. A broken man has nothing to offer a whole women. Why? The successful relationship is predicated on each person coming to the union to give, give, give ... this is the perfect formula for success! Broken people are needy and selfish!!
Mz Liz
#16. Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure
#17. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.
Mark Driscoll
#18. The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
#19. Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand - not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#20. Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.
Stephen Kendrick
#21. Gee, this has been fun," he said. "But I have to go watch paint dry now.
Jill Shalvis
#22. I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.
Billy Graham
#23. It took so long to find you ... and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it
I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.
Armistead Maupin
#24. If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically.
Joshua Harris
#25. He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)
George R R Martin
#26. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
Alan Keyes
#27. Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.
Richard G. Scott
#28. Our marriage ended because I couldn't make him see me or hear me or do anything I wanted or needed. I could only be as selfish and mean as he was to get his attention. And that was ruinous.
Susan Rieger
#29. When I was no longer afraid to deal with my own troubles, I did not want to be in a relationship with someone who was still afraid to deal with theirs.
Amanda Andruzzi
#30. Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.
Helen Hunt
#31. I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom ... it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!
Jennifer E. Smith
#32. As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Jim George
#33. Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!
Lady Randolph Churchill
#34. A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
Barbara Cartland
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