Relationship Quotes: Insights on Love and Connection

"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

"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

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

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"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

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"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

"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

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

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship"

Ralph Fiennes, 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

"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

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

Sara Paretsky, Author

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

Keanu Reeves, Actor

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

Robert Anthony, Educator

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"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

"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

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows"

Ben Stein, Actor

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

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

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

Mike Ditka, Coach

"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

"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

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

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Julie Benz, Actress

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"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

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

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"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

"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

"The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"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

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