Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

Rajneesh

The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power...

Rajneesh

Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who is preventing? You just have to tell a lie and there is no mess - and surrender to the powerful and beautiful woman. But remember, the moment a man surrenders to a woman he loses dignity in her eyes. She starts looking here and there for someone who has the guts not to surrender.

Smokey Robinson

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Socrates

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Theodor Reik

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

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.

Ravi Zacharias

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Ray Bradbury

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Ramsey Clark

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Ralph Peters

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

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.

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?

Mary Tyler Moore

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

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.

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

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.

Sheryl Crow

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

Sheryl Crow

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.