Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Polacco

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

David Boies

This summer, we're going to totally divorce Sun.

Anne Lamott

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

Albert Brooks

I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.

Albert Camus

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Daphne Guinness

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

Dan O'Brien

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

Natasha Trethewey

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Jane Fonda

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Chris Terrio

Merchant-Ivory, who put up the money for the film, had hired me to do a 'behind-the-scenes' on one of their films, Le Divorce , and Glenn (Close) was in that,

Bianca Jagger

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

C. S. Lewis

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

C. S. Lewis

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Cecelia Ahern

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Ashton Kutcher

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

Bertrand Russell

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

Paul Tudor Jones

My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Philip Yancey

I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

Terry Crisp

If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Shania Twain

I had been very angry, angry enough to lose control; none of us are above it.

Shania Twain

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

Shirin Ebadi

Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.

Paula White

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

Rachel Cusk

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Joss Whedon

No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.

Kim Kardashian

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

Rush Limbaugh

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

Rush Limbaugh

If you're getting married less you're getting less divorces.

Rush Limbaugh

Divorce has been very, very good to me.

Lindsey Vonn

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.