Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olga Kurylenko

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Merle Shain

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Haggard

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.

Mason Cooley

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

Michael Crawford

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Chabon

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Michel Faber

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

Martha Stewart

I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Harvey Fierstein

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Jim Morrison

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Martin Luther

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

Sebastian Roche

I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.

Margaret Mead

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Margaret Mead

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Michael Douglas

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

James Balog

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

James Balog

Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. You’re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. You’re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet that’s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, we’re forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.

James Balog

We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

Hedy Lamarr

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Mary Wesley

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Lisa Scottoline

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after,

John Updike

"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

Larry Gelbart

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Gary Chapman

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

Sheryl Crow

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

Nora Ephron

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

Nora Ephron

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Nora Ephron

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.

Nicole Kidman

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

Nicole Kidman

I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.