Quotes About Divorce

Jimmy Carter taught a Sunday school class throughout his presidency, winning the grudging respect of reporters who had once questioned his religious talk as a political ploy. Even so, he lost many Christians' votes to Ronald Reagan, the only U.S. president to have been divorced and who rarely attended church and gave little to charity, mainly because Reagan supported many of the favorite causes of the religious Right.

Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving, would be safe. For everyone would know that if a wife such as Queen Katherine of England could be put aside for no reason, then any wife could be put aside.

Rickey sometimes wondered what would have become of them if the Peychaud crew hadn't imploded one night in a marathon of apocalyptic drunkenness. No one remembered much of this night, but by the end of it, two cars were totaled, the sous chef and the bartender were in Charity Hospital, the chef was in jail, and the grill guy's wife was filing for divorce. The owner decided to close the place and they found themselves jobless. Rickey guessed this kind of thing was known as a wake-up call

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

It wasn't only his business practices that distressed Olivia. Everyone knew that Warren had cheated on his wife—correction, wives. He'd flaunted his affairs until both women had filed for divorce and left town.

The pastor made a funny comment. He said that when he taught marriage classes most of those attending took naps. It was the divorce classes where everyone took notes.

He practices his faults, and you practice your bitterness. You are both practicing divorce.

The Vine had no jukebox, but a real stereo continually playing tunes of alcoholic self-pity and sentimental divorce.

I got divorced today," she said. "I lost my job—no, correct that, my career—six months ago, as you well know, because I had a panic attack on the air. I've grown terrified of people, not particular people, but in general, which is worse. I've spent the last few months a virtual shut-in. And honestly? I can't wait to get back to it. Brian, there's nothing I like about myself.

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.

Infatuation. It was common, among the nurses and the doctors, the nurses and the patients, among any gathering of people thrown for long periods into one another's company. Some acted on it, and brief, intense affairs were frequent. If they were lucky, the affair flamed out within a few months and nothing resulted from it. If they were not Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well. Pregnancy, divorce, here and there the odd case of venereal disease. Dangerous thing, infatuation. I

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.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

For a lot of people, divorce is an incredibly healthy move to make in your life.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce.

You hear all the time that money can change people. Well, divorce can really change people.

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

You can't go through a divorce and then get back together.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.