Quotes with divorce

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  • P. J. O'Rourke Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Lee Trevino My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ben Affleck 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.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild 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.
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  • Hannah Arendt To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Boy George Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Helen Rowland When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bob Harper Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Ellen Goodman You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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  • Clare Boothe Luce You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • 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.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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