Relationship Quotes

"People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera"

"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority"

Nia Long, Actress

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on"

Don Henley, Musician

"Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"It was a mutual relationship"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about"

John Cusack, Actor

"At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"I think relationships are broken up because of the media"

Jay-Z, Musician

"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well"

David Cronenberg, Director

"A relationship is sent by God and accident"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society"

John Grierson, Director

"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"Leadership is a relationship that is created between people, which inspires and mobilizes them to achieve a vision"

Blaine Lee, Author

"This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

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