Relationship Quotes: Insights on Love and Connection (Page 3)

"The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know"

John Frusciante, Musician

"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

"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

"It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect"

Aaliyah, Musician

"There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities"

Vincent Frank

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

Sonia Braga, Actress

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

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"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

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom"

Richard Price, Writer

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

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"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

"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

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

Epicurus, Philosopher

"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

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

Dalai Lama, Leader

"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

"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

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

Monica Bellucci, Actress

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

Dave Barry, Author

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

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"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

"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

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

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"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

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"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

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