Relationship Quotes

"Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter"

Julie Benz, Actress

"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige"

William Devane, Actor

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows"

Ben Stein, Actor

"Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry"

Danny Glover, Actor

"If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me"

T-Bone Burnett

"I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg"

Erik Qualman, Author

"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships"

Katie Price, Model

"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women"

Angela Davis, Activist

"China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good"

Mark Mobius, Businessman

"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China"

John Howard, Statesman

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one"

Joan Baez, Musician

"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other"

Laura Dern, Actress

"You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV"

George Lopez, Comedian

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