Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney J. Harris

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Suze Orman

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

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.

Kim Kardashian

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Kenzaburo Oe

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Ralph Ellison

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

Ralph Fiennes

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Shia LaBeouf

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

Henry Winkler

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.

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.

We've had Thanksgivings together, so there's a strong relationship there.

Ultimately you have to really stay on top of these relationships if you want to be strong yourself,

Mona Simpson

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

Lesley Manville

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

David Cassidy

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Ronald Steel

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

Roger Enrico

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Paul Valery

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Pierre Charron

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Rachael Ray

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

Peter Munk

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Peter Medawar

Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.

Paulo Coelho

Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Quentin Crisp

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Quentin Crisp

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Naveen Andrews

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Richard Bach

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.