Relationship Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Buddha, Leader

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Mike Ditka, Coach

"My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship"

Joey Lauren Adams, 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

"The community is what makes CrossFit special. It's not just about getting in shape; it's about the relationships and the support you find along the way"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

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

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"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

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

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"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

"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

"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"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

"There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"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

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