Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Ronson

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Jon Anderson

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

Luigi Pirandello

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

John Churton Collins

What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

John Bradshaw

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

M. Scott Peck

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

Eva Longoria

You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

Orson Scott Card

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

Patrick Wilson

If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

Steve Toltz

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

Scott Adams

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

Rajneesh

Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is not a relationship. Relationship is a dead thing, a closed thing. Love is a flowing.

Rajneesh

Hence there are so many kinds of love and so many kinds of compassion. But the basic, the most fundamental, is to understand this three-rung ladder of love. That will help you, that will give you an insight into where you are, what kind of love you are living in and what kind of compassion is happening to you. Watch. Beware not to remain caught in it. There are higher realms, heights to be climbed, peaks to be attained.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Rollo May

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

Soren Kierkegaard

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Sophie Kinsella

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Woody Allen

I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.

William Scranton

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Sara Evans

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger

Samuel P. Huntington

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

Vanessa Hudgens

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

Uma Thurman

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Ricardo Semler

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

Robert De Niro

'What's the difference between sex and love?' Hmm. That's a good question. Hey, you interviewed Al Pacino. How'd he answer that?'

Sarah Dessen

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Sarah Dessen

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Sarah Dessen

And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

Sarah Dessen

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

Sarah Dessen

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.