Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Brothers

The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.

Juliana Hatfield

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

Jules Renard

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Pamela Anderson

Sometimes sex gets in the way of a relationship.

Kathryn Stockett

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

June Singer

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

Julie Taymor

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Maria Shriver

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

Patrick Stewart

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

John Schlesinger

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Nick Lowe

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

Ozzy Osbourne

Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.

Nhat Hanh

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

Jodi Picoult

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

John Gray

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

John Gray

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

John Gray

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

John Gray

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

John Gray

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

John Gray

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

John Green

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

Nick Rahall

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

Nick Hornby

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

Nick Hornby

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Marian Keyes

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Marian Keyes

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

Nicholas Sparks

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

Nicholas Sparks

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

Nicholas Sparks

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.