Spouse Quotes - Page 5

• Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.

  Ken Blanchard

  Husband, Trying, Spirit

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• Mary adored Jesus as the Bridegroom of souls. Union is the final purpose of love. Jesus by the gift of His substance in the Eucharist unites Himself with our souls as with His dear spouses. As a Bridegroom, He gives them all His possessions, His name, His heart, His whole Self, but on the condition that the soul reciprocates. The soul, His spouse, shall live for Him only

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Heart, Names

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• There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

  Lisa Belkin

  Children, Pain, Grieving

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• It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

  Edward Frenkel

  Secret Love, Lovers, Mathematics

  Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books

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• It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Lust, Half

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• No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, Should

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• What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Mother, Children, Father

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• If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

  Adrian Lyne

  Thinking, Actors, Fool

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• It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

  Jerry O'Connell

  Kids, Different Experiences, Different

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• I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, Law, Parent

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• WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Names, Warning

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.

  Eddy Cue

  Kids, Three, Labels

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• [Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

  Teresa of Avila

  Moving, Time To Move On, Done

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2003). “The Interior Castle”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Growing Up, Crazy

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• Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

  John Milton

  Hypocrite, Mysterious, Innocence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 738

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• Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.

  Joan Rivers

  Wise, Mean, Thinking

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• Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Brother, Children

  Attributed in "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" by Henry Parry Liddon, (pp. 147-148), 1868.

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• You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Two, America

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife and I'll get another husband!'

  Leonard J. Arrington

  Husband, Wife, Polygamy

  Leonard J. Arrington, Davis Bitton (1992). “The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints”, p.200, University of Illinois Press

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• Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

  Peter Andrews

  Running, Golf, Risk

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• The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

  Ted Haggard

  Mean, Ideas, Sin

  Ted Haggard (2002). “Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, People, Good Relationship

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• I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

  Tim Allen

  Life, Kids, Thinking

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• What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Children, Home, Order

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• Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

  Johnny Isakson

  Children, Knowing, America

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