Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.

Michelle Branch

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

Michael Ondaatje

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

If the relationship has been adversarial, the FDA, we believe, would not be as accommodating, even in speech.

Bill Gates

It has nothing to do with any lawsuit, ... There is no relation whatsoever.

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.

Lauryn Hill

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Lisa Snowdon

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

Lisa Ling

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

John Suckling

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

John Oates

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

Gennifer Flowers

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

Gennifer Flowers

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

Gennifer Flowers

I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.

Gennifer Flowers

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.

Martin Jacques

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

Henry Rollins

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Mandy Moore

Someday we'll know if love can move a mountain.

Eric Hoffer

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Emo Philips

My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.

Jacques Lacan

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

George Fetherling

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall