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

"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

"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

"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

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

Sara Paretsky, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"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

"In a relationship you have to open yourself up"

Neil LaBute, Director

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"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

"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

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

Lexa Doig, Actress

"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"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

"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

"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries"

Patty Duke, Actress

"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

"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"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

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