Divorced Quotes - Page 16

• What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

  James Alan Gardner

  Reality, Thinking, Firsts

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wife, Articles, Happened

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dark Side Of The Moon”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Emotional

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• There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

  Delia Ephron

  Divorce, Jail, Fantastic

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Healing, Home, Boys

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Many lovers have been divorced
  By having what is free enforced.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Lovers, Has Beens

  Robert Frost (1943). “A Witness Tree”

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• Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Humanity, Prosperity

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• Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

  Ayn Rand

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Reality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.21, Penguin

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• You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.

  Samuel Beckett

  Literature, Form, Bother

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.150, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Board Of Education

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• I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Vanity, Wife

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.75

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• Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Women, Working Parents

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• Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

  Deepa Mehta

  Sorry, Men, White Man

  Source: collider.com

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• No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Communication, Acceptance, People

  "Economics As A Moral Science" (1969) by Kenneth E. Boulding (p. 2), as quoted in "Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist" by John B. Davis, 2011.

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• If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Divorce, Married, Shut Up

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• When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'

  Marie Osmond

  Stars, Kids, People

  Interview with Patricia Sheridan, www.post-gazette.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.

  Christopher Penczak

  Mean, Doe, Earth

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• I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Home, Second Chance

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• Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

  Merle Haggard

  Cost, Reason, Nelson

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

  Deb Caletti

  Holiday, Kids, Parent

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• I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way.

  Teddy Thompson

  Dad, Parent, Trying

  "Morning Becomes Eclectic" with Chris Douridas, www.kcrw.com. April 4, 2011.

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• We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Father, Mean, Scary

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

  Nancy Kress

  Events, Plot, Coats

  Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

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• Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Historical, Criticism

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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