Divorced Quotes - Page 9

• I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

  Danny Strong

  Kids, Parent

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 19, 2003.

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• I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.

  Lily King

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.

  Leigh Newman

  Baby, Brother, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

  Dave Mustaine

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

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• Let's not forget, I got divorced.

  Larry David

  Forget

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• It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, World, Fruit

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.15, Bertrand Russell

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• ...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Father, Way

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• Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

  Nora Ephron

  Funny Relationship, Men, Want

  Nora Ephron (2014). “The Most of Nora Ephron”, p.336, Random House

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• We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

  Norman Mailer

  Life, Nature, Cancer

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mean, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.360

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• There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Godly, Thinking

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• What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Divorce, Thinking, Long

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• In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Writing, Sound, Interiors

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• Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

  Charlie Cook

  Nature, Support, World

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• It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Men, Often Is, Perspective

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.76, Routledge

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• The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Reality, Church, President

  Daniel Ellsberg (1972). “Papers on the war”, Pocket

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• All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

  Mao Zedong

  Powerful, Believe, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

  Jeff Gannon

  Reality, Rocks, Talking

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

  Adam Levine

  Successful, Lasts, Generations

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• Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it's gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don't go, 'ohhhh I'm sorry.' That's a stupid thing to say. First of all you're making 'em feel bad for being really happy, which isn't fair. And second of all: divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true, because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. It's really that simple.

  Louis C. K.

  Sorry, Stupid, Divorce

  "Please Stop Saying You’re So Sorry" by Carly Israel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If you meet somebody, fall in love and get married. Then get divorced. Because that's the best part. Divorce is forever! It really actually is. Marriage is for how long you can hack it. But divorce just gets stronger like a piece of oak. Nobody ever says 'oh, my divorce is falling apart, it's over, I can't take it.'

  Louis C. K.

  Falling In Love, Divorce, Love Is

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• I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

  Bobby Hull

  Hockey, Millionaire, Funny Hockey

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• I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.

  Denise Richards

  Hilarious, Husband, Giving

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• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  Laura Linney

  Father, Weekend, Parent

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• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  Sam Kinison

  Couple, Church, One Day

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