Relationship Quotes

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

"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

"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"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

"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

"Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone"

John Hannah, Athlete

"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

"And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"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

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

Mahatma Gandhi, 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

"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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

Doug Coupland, Author

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

Doug Coupland, Author

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do"

John Ruskin, Writer

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"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

"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship"

Dave Barry, Author

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"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

"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship"

Buddha, Leader

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"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

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