Ian Fleming Quotes

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

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

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

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.

Marriage is not just about love. It is more than that. It is about commitment, giving, taking, and understanding.

I think I couldn't balance my marriage and my mother's deteriorating health. I realized it was unfair to my husband to have my divided attention. I understood he deserved better and should go for that. He deserved the attention of a partner, not another headache, and I didn't want to share my time with anyone else but my mother.

People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken.

I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.