Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Shakti Gawain

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

Shakti Gawain

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

Rick Riordan

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Remy de Gourmont

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

Robert A. Heinlein

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Tim Robbins

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

Tim McGraw

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

Regina Brett

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

Thomas Jane

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Victoria Pratt

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

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.

Robert Frost

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Robert Bloch

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Rita Rudner

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

Richard Marx

Too caught up in me to see, I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me. I'll try and show you each and every way I can, now and forever, I will be your man.

Thomas More

Friendship demands attention.

Rupert Holmes

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

Tom Ford

If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"

Steve Harvey

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Steve Harvey

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

Steve Harvey

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

Steve Harvey

I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.

Steve Harvey

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

Steve Harvey

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Steve Harvey

I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

Steve Harvey

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

Steve Harvey

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Steve Harvey

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Steve Harvey

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Steve Harvey

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

Steve Harvey

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.