Relationship Quotes

"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter"

Abbey Lincoln, Musician

"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects"

Barbara Hershey, Actress

"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture"

Jason Segel, Actor

"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it"

James Garner, Activist

"And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with"

George Herbert Walker, Businessman

"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other"

Friedrich List, Economist

"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate"

Ed Koch, Politician

"Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else"

Ismail Merchant, Producer

"I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do"

Joe Klein, Journalist

"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years"

Joan Van Ark, Actress

"My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman"

George Plimpton, Journalist

"I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship"

Diane Lane, Actress

"You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship"

Daisy Fuentes, Actress

"When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever"

Jody Watley, Musician

"The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel"

John Boehner, Politician

"It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world"

Emily Watson, Actress

"One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships"

Courtney Thorne Smith, Actress

"My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility"

Don Johnson, Actor

"On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level"

Edward Albert, Actor

"I make my relationships at work"

Carol Kane, Actress

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