Relationship Quotes: Insights on Love and Connection

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband"

Julie Benz, Actress

"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"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

"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

"But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"

Chaim Potok, Author

"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news"

John Le Carre, Author

"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross"

Megan Fox, Actress

"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"In a relationship you have to open yourself up"

Neil LaBute, Director

"We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature"

Herman Hesse, Author

"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family"

Mark Goddard, Actor

"Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well"

Kate Middleton, Celebrity

"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work"

Lexa Doig, Actress

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