Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jim Rohn

Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

Jim Rohn

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Jim Rohn

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Jim Rohn

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Jim Rohn

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

Elvis Presley

Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know.

Elvis Presley

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

Elvis Presley

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

Elliot Perlman

What is it about men that make women so lonely?

Elizabeth Gilbert

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elisabetta Canalis

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

Eknath Easwaran

Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

Joel Osteen

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

Louise Hay

My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me.

Louise Hay

Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.

Lou Rawls

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

John D. MacDonald

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

Linda Ellerbee

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Leo Tolstoy

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Buscaglia

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Leo Buscaglia

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Leo Buscaglia

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

Lew Wasserman

You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

Lewis Carroll

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

Mother Teresa

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

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.