Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pema Chodron

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Peter Porter

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

Piper Perabo

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Julian Barnes

He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.

Maggie Stiefvater

I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Haruki Murakami

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Haruki Murakami

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

Greg Behrendt

He's just not that into you if he's not asking you out. Because if he likes you, trust me, he will ask you out.

Greg Behrendt

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

Gordon Lightfoot

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

Gordon Lightfoot

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

John Lennon

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Julie Delpy

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

Julie Burchill

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

Judith Orloff

Relationships carry the whole universe within them. They can be everything, nothing, here, then gone. One moment, loving someone makes you shine; the next, it feels like matter and antimatter colliding.

Kate Hudson

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

Karen Kingsbury

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Joshua Harris

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

Leona Lewis

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Leonard Cohen

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

John Keats

You are always new to me.

John Keats

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

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.

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.