Relationship Quotes

"I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work"

Richard Donner, Director

"If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage"

George Carey, Clergyman

"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest"

Laura Riding, Poet

"I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship"

Mark Steyn, Writer

"When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter"

Terri Apter

"Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career"

Michael Douglas, Actor

"I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level"

Pepper Schwartz

"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government"

Roy Moore, Judge

"As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further"

Marek Belka, Economist

"There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore"

Michael Mullen, Soldier

"They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten"

Gil Kane, Artist

"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier"

Joel Coen, Director

"We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food"

Gordon Brown, Politician

"Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are"

Colleen Haskell, Celebrity

"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality"

Tom C. Clark, Politician

"Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad"

Dexter S. King

"There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do"

Sandy Koufax, Athlete

"I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end"

Dennis Franz, Actor

"Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

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