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Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.

— Pete Burns

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

— Sinbad

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

— Suzanne Brockmann

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

— Cathy Moriarty

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

— John Leguizamo

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

— Gabrielle Union

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

— Elizabeth Warren

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Paul Newman

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

— Jerry Della Femina