#marriages

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#dependent #friendships #like #marriages

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. ↗

— Paul Martin

#celebrate #ceremonies #charter #couples #court

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. ↗

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

#children #exist #going #longer #marriage

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#appalled #attack #bush #constitutional #constitutional amendment

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#marriages #may #pleasant

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#last #live #los #los angeles #marriages

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#causes #happy #live #marriages #problems

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#any #break #break up #determination #failure

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#end #fewer #happiness #look #marriage