David Baldacci Quotes

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.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

For me, an ideal relationship is about supporting each other and having great understanding.

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.

When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.

In my own personal experience in my life, people that I argue with or have confrontations with are the people I love and care about the most. I wouldn't think to argue with somebody I couldn't give two s**ts about. There's no point in arguing if you don't care.

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

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.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

My wife doesn't like me eating doughnuts. I love doughnuts.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

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

I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.