Relationship Quotes

"In a relationship you have to open yourself up"

"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

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

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content"

Ken Burns, Director

"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

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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

"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

"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

"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

"There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

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

Mike Ditka, Coach

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

Epicurus, Philosopher

"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

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

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"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

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

Doug Coupland, Author

"Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about"

John Cusack, Actor

"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

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

Doug Coupland, Author

"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

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

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"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

"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part"

Orlando Bloom, 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

"You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience"

Virginia Madsen, Actress

"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"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

"Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"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

"Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

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