Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Debbie Ford

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

Drew Fuller

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Donald Barthelme

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

Don Johnson

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Dwayne Johnson

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Dolly Parton

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Dinah Sheridan

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Delia Ephron

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Debbie Reynolds

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

Anatole Broyard

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Cynthia Lennon

I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person.

Dustin Hoffman

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

Annette Funicello

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Anna Held

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Anthea Turner

I have worked and earned all my life and have found that divorce is an expensive process. Whichever way you look at it, you are going to halve your wealth. If you can avoid it, do. It is an awful process.

Anthony Burgess

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

Miguel

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

Elbert Hubbard

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Mariah Carey

Since her divorce: I haven't had a home since I left there, but hey, I'm glad.

She was a divorced single mother of three at 22. She worked numerous jobs to support us.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

Charles Spurgeon

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Denis Diderot

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.

Debra Messing

You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.

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.

John Garfield

There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

Felicity Huffman

As my husband tells me, he's going to kill me and divorce me and then eat me if I work over the hiatus. He's ready for us to have some time together, and he's ready not to be Mr. Mom, anymore.

Robert Jeffress

The Bible never divorces the truth of Christ's future return with our present-day responsibilities.