Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

Elton John

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

Neale Donald Walsch

Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Miles Franklin

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Milan Kundera

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Milan Kundera

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Margaret Spellings

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

Marcel Proust

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Jones Very

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Joni Mitchell

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

Kevin Spacey

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Melody Beattie

Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.

James Patterson

He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

James MacGregor Burns

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Emile Zola

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

Emily Giffin

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

And he said, 'No, I only have a professional relationship with her,' ... I said, 'Oh, what do you mean?'

Henri Nouwen

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

Henri Nouwen

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.

Helen Rowland

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Henry Cloud

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Khalil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Khalil Gibran

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

Khalil Gibran

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Norman Spinrad

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Norman Schwarzkopf

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.