Divorced Quotes - Page 17

• I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Writing

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Independent, Minorities

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

  David Kim

  Humanity, Identity, Vacuums

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In [Ronald] Reagan's view, the American Founders had anchored their experiment in Judeo-Christian beliefs; the Bolsheviks deliberately established an antithetical model. Those founders of communism divorced their "faith" from God.

  Paul Kengor

  Christian, Views, Belief

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours.

  Gabrielle Union

  Dream, Live Life, Blue

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.

  Paul Kengor

  Religious, Feet, Foundation

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Dad, Learning Something New

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I am never going to get divorced, and that's that.

  Princess Diana

  Divorce

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• One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Faithful, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

  Molly Shannon

  Struggle, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

  Hector Tobar

  Optimistic, Parent, Three

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In 1980, evangelicals overwhelmingly elected a candidate who was a known womanizer when he was in Hollywood. He would be the first divorced president in U.S. history. His name was Ronald Reagan. And when evangelicals voted for Reagan, they weren't endorsing womanizing. They weren't endorsing divorce. They were endorsing Reagan's policies.

  Robert Jeffress

  Divorce, Names, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  Chris Martin

  Religious, Art, Latin

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

  Jon Landau

  Artist, Roots, White

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• My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Mom, Years, Parent

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• In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Father, Government

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Intelligent, People

  "This much I know". Interview With Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.

  Allan Boesak

  Jesus, Justice, May

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.

  Mickey Rooney

  Kids, Army, Boys

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• A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Wife

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

  Ann Patchett

  Discarded, Stills, Storyline

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Trials, Cases

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• The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. The blueprints of your House of Belonging exist as spiritual energy and hover over your head-ready, when you are, to be pulled down from Heaven to shelter your Soul on Earth.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Children, Heaven

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• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Violence, Action

  "The Question of Peace". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293, July–August 1915.

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