Divorce Quotes - Page 19

• I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'

  Adele

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Marriage, Way, Publicity

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• It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

  Richard Jeni

  Marriage, Country, Hey

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• Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

  Heather Mills

  Children, Culture, News

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Ties, People, Community

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Giving, Facts

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Marriage, Sex

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.'

  Wade Horn

  Couple, Kids, Fighting

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• In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

  Agnes Bruckner

  Mom, Talking, People

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

  Hank Azaria

  Moon, Trying, Wonder

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• It's like I'm married to the silencer,
  Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers.
  Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries,
  Put your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Art, Rap, Hip Hop

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• A wise man sees failure as progress.
  A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
  And loses his soul in the process.

  Canibus

  Wise, Rap, Men

  Song: Poet Laureate II, Album: Rip the Jacker, 2003

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• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  Joe Conason

  Mother, New York, Oklahoma

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• The divorce has become a reality.

  Mikhail Margelov

  Reality

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• Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

  Jim Jeffords

  Reality, Climate, Finals

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• Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Stories, Things Change

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 29, 2017

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• Don't live your life to please other people.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Live Your Life, Arrogance

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Soul, Unity

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• There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

  Aimee Mann

  Music, Guy, Sitting Down

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• It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

  Axl Rose

  Funny, Stupid, People

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• Over the years I’ve worked with countless women who have inspired me with their stories. Beyond makeup, we’ve talked about life-altering events. Everything from the joy of being a new mom to dealing with homelessness and divorce. With each conversation, these women have shown that when you have the will and the heart, almost anything is possible—and that’s what Pretty Powerful is all about.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mom, Powerful, Heart

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• Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
  --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

  Diana Gabaldon

  Believe, Catholic, Roger

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• We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack,
  and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Stress, Earthquakes, Government

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