Relationship Quotes

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life"

C. Kilmer Myers

"Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part"

David Carradine, Actor

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"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"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship"

Buddha, Leader

"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"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude"

William James, Philosopher

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"The community is what makes CrossFit special. It's not just about getting in shape; it's about the relationships and the support you find along the way"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage"

John Le Carre, Author

"I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

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