Nas Quotes

All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you're not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you're working.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

Marriage is more complex than we think.

Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.

I have a very intense marriage.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.