Relationship Quotes

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other"

"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

"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

"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

"I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage"

John Le Carre, Author

"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 guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"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

"There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small"

James Laughlin, Poet

"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

"American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted"

William J. Clinton, President

"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge"

Rebecca West, Author

"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

"Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors"

James Laughlin, Poet

"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China"

John Bruton, Politician

"I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks"

Andre Agassi, Athlete