Relationship Quotes

"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships"

"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one"

"For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they have today over their jobs"

Mark Goddard, Actor

"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads"

John Moody, Businessman

"It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care"

Victor Garber, Actor

"For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper"

Jim Costa, Politician

"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure"

James Taylor, Musician

"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state"

William Scranton, Politician

"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men"

Danny Glover, Actor

"These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves"

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'"

David Thewlis, Actor

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