Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
~By Lee Trevino ~
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
~By Marvin Mitchelson ~
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
~By Tertullian ~
I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
~By James Caan ~
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
~By Cary Grant ~
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
~By Vince Gill ~
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
~By Willie Nelson ~
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
~By Douglas Feith ~
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
~By Gerald F. Lieberman ~
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
~By John Keats ~
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
~By Wally Schirra ~
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
~By Ricky Skaggs ~
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
~By Natalie Portman ~
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
~By Princess Diana ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~By Vera Brittain ~
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
~By Brian Celio ~
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
~By Nicole Richie ~
When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
~By Martina Hingis ~
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
~By Jim Carrey ~
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.
~By Don Adams ~
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
~By Elayne Boosler ~
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
~By Emma Bonino ~
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
~By Betty Hill ~
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
~By Roger Waters ~
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
~By Buddy Guy ~
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
~By Aimee Mann ~
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
~By Jay Leno ~
In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
~By Dan Dailey ~
My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
~By Wendy Liebman ~
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
~By Bob Geldof ~
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
~By Mary Garden ~
A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.
~By Gene Ween ~
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
~By Jack Benny ~
At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
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.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
~By Lee Trevino ~
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
~By Ben Affleck ~
The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
~By Arlie Hochschild ~
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
~By Michael Hutchence ~
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
~By Henny Youngman ~
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.
~By Michael Chabon ~
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
~By Sumner Redstone ~
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.
~By Sharon Gless ~
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
~By Claire Trevor ~
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
~By Naomi Watts ~
I've been married three times and divorced three times.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.
~By Paula Danziger ~
If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.
~By Heather Donahue ~
I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
~By James Denton ~
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
~By William P. Leahy ~
I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
~By Placido Domingo ~
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
~By Michael Douglas ~
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
~By Elinor Glyn ~
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
~By Kate Millett ~
I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.
~By Jay Mohr ~
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
~By Lucille Ball ~
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
~By Edward Albee ~
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
~By Diana Ross ~
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
~By Norman Mailer ~
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.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
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