Betty Wright Quotes

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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.

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.

I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I have a very intense marriage.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.