Quotes About Divorce

By supporting Reagan, evangelicals were not supporting womanizing or divorce, but they were endorsing Reagan's policies.

I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.

My mum is incredibly leftwing, and my dad was quite rightwing - no surprise they didn't stay together - and so I had two very conflicting political opinions as a child, neither of which I was interested in taking any notice of, being a sort of little reprobate.

The first divorce is the only tough one. After that it's merely a problem in economics.

Muhammad's male followers were disgruntled about the new inheritance laws, they must have been furious when, in a single revolutionary move, he both limited how many wives a man could marry and granted women the right to divorce their husbands.

The woman you marry is never the same woman you divorce.

For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

People are unrealistically optimistic even when the stakes are high. About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, and this is a statistic most people have heard. But around the time of the ceremony, almost all couples believe that there is approximately a zero percent chance that their marriage will end in divorce—even those who have already been divorced!10 (Second marriage, Samuel Johnson once quipped, "is the triumph of hope over experience.")

Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.

But when Kaname asked: Would you like to separate, then? Misako answered: Would you? They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face with his own weakness.

The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The

The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The Quran prescribes some degree of segregation and veiling for the Prophet's wives, but there is nothing in the Quran that requires the veiling of all women or their seclusion in a separate part of the house.

I find I can get mundane jobs done pretty quickly when I'm in a mood. I often wash up pots if I've had an argument with Suzanne, and I do a thorough job in good time and then by the time I've finished I've calmed down. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a link between the rise in divorce rates and the introduction of the dishwasher.

Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways?

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say "Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha."

They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.