Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Meg Cabot

You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?

Maximilian Schell

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Mary Tyler Moore

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

Peter De Vries

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Peter Drucker

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Marianne Moore

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Meghan O'Rourke

Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

Meat Loaf

You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

Meat Loaf

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

Meat Loaf

I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout.

Michael Caine

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

Melody Beattie

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

Martha Wainwright

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

Theodore Roethke

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

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.

If the relationship has been adversarial, the FDA, we believe, would not be as accommodating, even in speech.

Neale Donald Walsch

Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Miles Franklin

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Milan Kundera

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Milan Kundera

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Margaret Spellings

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

Marcel Proust

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

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.