Relationship Quotes

‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’ – Maya Angelou

‘People change and forget to tell each other.’ – Lillian Hellman

‘Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.’ – Bob Marley

‘Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.’ – Walter Winchell

‘Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.’ – Rollo May

‘You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.’ – Taylor Swift

‘If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.’ – Richard Bach

‘Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.’ – Thomas Merton

‘We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.’ – John Lennon

‘There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.’ – Elon Musk

‘A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.’ – Lord Byron

‘There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Assumptions are the termites of relationships.’ – Henry Winkler

‘Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.’ – Washington Irving

‘I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.’ – Julia Roberts

‘Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.’ – Mike Murdock

‘If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.’ – Graham Greene

‘Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Intense love does not measure, it just gives.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.’ – Marian Keyes

‘It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.’ – Groucho Marx

‘I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.’ – Humphrey Bogart

‘I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.’ – Anais Nin

‘Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.’ – Hugh Mackay

‘The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.’ – Willa Cather

‘Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.’ – Homer

‘The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.’ – Robert Anthony

‘Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo

‘Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Who cares about the clouds when we’re together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.’ – Dale Evans

‘The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.’ – Joan Baez

‘What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?’ – Jacques Lacan

‘Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.’ – Dorothy Day

‘When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.’ – Andy Warhol

‘I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.’ – Chanakya

‘Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.’ – Brendan Behan

‘In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.’ – Lauryn Hill

‘If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?’ – Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.’ – Ralph Ellison

‘I don’t want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.’ – Grace Kelly

‘What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.’ – Joyce Brothers

‘Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘There is not love where there is no will.’ – Indira Gandhi

‘We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.’ – Adam Sandler

‘There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.’ – Max Lucado

‘It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Everybody needs somebody.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘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

‘You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.’ – Agnes Repplier

‘You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.’ – Keith Sweat

‘The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The heart is forever inexperienced.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.’ – Oliver Hudson

‘How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘They do not love that do not show their love.’ – William Shakespeare

‘A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.’ – Beau Mirchoff

‘Men and women have strengths that complement each other.’ – Edwin Louis Cole

‘It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.’ – Laurence J. Peter

‘If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.’ – Helen Rowland

‘No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.’ – May Sarton

‘If you’re married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife ‘I love her’ the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that’s how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.’ – Tim Tebow

‘Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It’s easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.’ – Paris Hilton

‘I don’t even like to use the word relationship. I don’t know what it means.’ – Ron Silver

‘I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.’ – Halle Berry

‘I can’t even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.’ – Andre Maurois

‘If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.’ – Mother Teresa

‘I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.’ – David Rockefeller

‘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

‘He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.’ – Buddha

‘The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.’ – Maya Angelou

‘The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.’ – Natalie Wood

‘Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.’ – Denis Waitley

‘It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.’ – Maurice Chevalier

‘Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.’ – Joyce Brothers

‘A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.’ – T. Berry Brazelton

‘When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.’ – Ramakrishna

‘Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.’ – Jack Nicholson

‘I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.’ – Richard Bach

‘Do you know that other than my father, I’ve never had a man take care of me?’ – Dionne Warwick

‘It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘It’s nice to be with someone, but I don’t think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.’ – Kristin Davis

‘Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you’re interested without making a fool out of yourself.’ – Carmen Electra

‘I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.’ – Greta Scacchi

‘I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.’ – Michael Caine

‘People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it’s so scary – it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.’ – Toni Collette

‘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

‘I’m lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.’ – Sara Paretsky

‘I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives.’ – Ron Chernow

‘It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.’ – Anthony Storr

‘Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.’ – Rita Rudner

‘A relationship isn’t going to make me survive. It’s the cherry on top.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.’ – Billy Graham

‘I don’t think it’s necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.’ – Anjelica Huston

‘You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don’t go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.’ – Daisy Fuentes

‘Every relationship I’ve been in, I’ve overwhelmed the girl. They just can’t handle all the love.’ – Justin Timberlake

‘God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.’ – Addison Mizner

‘Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.’ – Marianne Faithfull

‘My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I’m a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there’s a safety in that.’ – Alison Sweeney

‘If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I’m a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.’ – Katherine Jenkins

‘A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.’ – Ninon de L’Enclos

‘Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something.’ – Will Cuppy

‘Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.’ – Remy de Gourmont

‘In a relationship you have to open yourself up.’ – Neil LaBute

‘I think it’s healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.’ – Liv Tyler

‘To marry unequally is to suffer equally.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘For the most part, that message hasn’t changed a lot over the years – love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.’ – Casey Kasem

‘My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point… Or ever, by the way.’ – Mitt Romney

‘My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in ’86 and she graduated in ’88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.’ – Cuba Gooding, Jr.

‘I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don’t think of it as ‘I’m going to be with this person forever.’ Instead, I think of more like, ‘I’ll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I’ll re-evaluate.” – Michael Ian Black

‘I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.’ – Richard Schickel

‘I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don’t have an easy relationship. I don’t think we ever will, but I’d rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.’ – Tori Spelling

‘You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.’ – Victoria Pratt

‘Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.’ – Dave Barry

‘Women won’t let me stay single and I won’t let me stay married.’ – Errol Flynn

‘Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? – Jean Giraudoux’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can’t help but want your own space.’ – Helena Bonham Carter

‘When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.’ – Orlando Bloom

‘I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.’ – Anne Rice

‘I was in a relationship with a girl I loved 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

‘My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.’ – Olly Alexander

‘Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.’ – Buddha

‘I did go to college with him, but everyone’s always like, ‘Did you meet Mark Zuckerberg? Did you hang out with him?’ and I’m like, ‘No,’ because he was in a lab creating Facebook, and I was, like, learning about alcohol. Well, we did go to school, and I think I’m not really benefiting from that relationship in any way.’ – Colin Jost

‘Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.’ – William James

‘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

‘I wasn’t really too hyped on religion. I don’t really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There’s just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them.’ – NLE Choppa

‘No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you’ll stand firm if you stand on His love.’ – Charles Stanley

‘My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.’ – Federico Fellini

‘I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe

‘The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.’ – Margaret Mead

‘Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.’ – Winona LaDuke

‘Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.’ – Harold S. Geneen

‘Byron Saxton is creepy. He has a relationship between me and him going on in his head. I’m not included in this personally – like, I am, but I’m not. He has a weird fetish with my feet: he loves to call me different kinds of names, like ‘Samoan Sweetcake’ and ‘Twinkle Toes.’ It goes on from there.’ – Nia Jax

‘When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘My relationship with God and my parents, that’s what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts.’ – Jordan Fisher

‘A people’s relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘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

‘I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.’ – Nick Cannon

‘In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that’s a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.’ – Morris Gleitzman

‘I think that the United States and the Philippines have always had a good relationship with each other. We were colonized by the Americans and we have their culture and our traditions even up to this day and I think that we’re very welcoming with the Americans. And I don’t see any problem with that at all.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.’ – Jason Mraz

‘Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon… what it means to you.’ – Christopher McCandless

‘I have a relationship with God. I do believe in God, The Son, and Holy Ghost. But I respect everybody, and as far as the Muslims go, I like how they live because they have discipline. They have real structure and I like.’ – Tee Grizzley

‘You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.’ – Caleb Carr

‘I’m always interested in relationships between women. I’m always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it’s a family relationship or it’s a friend relationship. That’s such uncharted territory in cinema.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘What if every relationship you’ve ever been in, is someone slowly figuring out they didn’t like you as much as they hoped they would?’ – James Acaster

‘There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.’ – Martin Luther

‘I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I’ve lost someone or I’ve seen a sick child, I’ve had conversations with Him in which I’ve had to ask, ‘How can that be right?” – Melissa McCarthy

‘I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.’ – Jose Carreras

‘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

‘My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He’s always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn’t always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.’ – DMX

‘When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.’ – Tadao Ando

‘Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.’ – Abraham Verghese

‘I’m not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don’t go to church like I should.’ – John Daly

‘So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.’ – Alan Watts

‘I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.’ – Steven Wright

‘Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.’ – Howard Schultz

‘I think Sting would be denying his fans a great moment if Sting did not step into WWE competition at least once. I have always been a huge admirer of what Sting brings to the table and his relationship with his audience, and I would be dramatically disappointed if Sting does not wrestle a WWE match.’ – Paul Heyman

‘The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.’ – Toni Collette

‘Approaching people looking for something in return isn’t a relationship, it’s a transaction.’ – Mark Manson

‘Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘I’ve always believed in people’s capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I’m not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.’ – Laura Schlessinger

‘The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach’s job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.’ – Bradley Cooper

‘No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.’ – Keith Miller

‘Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands… Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.’ – Giorgio Agamben

‘God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.’ – James Baldwin

‘Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we’ve set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.’ – Phil Robertson

‘I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.’ – Miranda Kerr

‘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.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.’ – Drake

‘I was in an unhappy relationship with Todd Rundgren. He cheated on me and I was like, if you can go out with her, then I’ll go out with Mick Jagger!’ – Bebe Buell

‘The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.’ – Valentino Rossi

‘We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.’ – David Elliott

‘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

‘I have a great relationship with the fans. They love me; they have always shown that.’ – Paolo Maldini

‘I’m Nigerian. I’m African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It’s a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.’ – Burna Boy

‘When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘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

‘A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It’s also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘It’s very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.’ – Ruth J. Simmons

‘To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.’ – Angela Davis

‘Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.’ – Paul Henderson

‘Marriage isn’t the end-point of a relationship. It’s just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, ‘Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.’ Which is not a guarantee of perfection – far from it.’ – Marjorie Liu

‘You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.’ – Josh Turner

‘I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.’ – Giancarlo Esposito

‘I’ve never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It’s been a much slower process for me each time I’ve gone into a relationship.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.’ – Kathleen Kennedy

‘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

‘The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there’s no connection.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘I personally don’t believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.’ – Donald Glover

‘I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.’ – Harrison Ford

‘Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.’ – Derek Bok

‘I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.’ – Antoni Porowski

‘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

‘The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.’ – Michael Leunig

‘There’s book smart, there is street smart, there’s relationship smart, there’s too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn’t know every kind of smart. There’s money smart, there’s movie smart, there’s computer smart. There’s just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that’s at the center of my music.’ – Juice Wrld

‘Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.’ – John Burroughs

‘If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It’d be best if we can communicate often.’ – Lee Min-ho

‘The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.’ – Manny Pacquiao

‘The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.’ – Emil Ludwig

‘Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.’ – Dick Gregory

‘When it comes to relationship compromise, it’s a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being of service to another person, in whatever way that ends up being.’ – Chris Sullivan

‘If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.’ – Regina Brett

‘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

‘I live in a house in a forest about 20 minutes out of Copenhagen, with my actress wife Rikke and my four children – my son Louis, 20, from a previous relationship, and our three: Charlie, ten, Miles, eight, and Nomi, six.’ – Kim Bodnia

‘The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I’d say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.’ – Diane von Furstenberg

‘I definitely consider myself a Christian. There’s things that I believe in, there’s things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.’ – Big Sean

‘When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.’ – T. B. Joshua

‘We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.’ – Sara Zarr

‘Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people’s problems were worse than ours.’ – Langston Hughes

‘But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.’ – Bono

‘Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It’s an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.’ – Alain de Botton

‘It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.’ – Mark Cuban

‘Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.’ – Eminem

‘Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I’ll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal.’ – Michael Pollan

‘I’m not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it’s not anybody’s damn business how we talk.’ – Jake Roberts

‘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

‘Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, ‘Misery loves company.’ I am also reminded to be mindful of the company you keep. Sometimes you cannot see a hater until you are happy. It is then that they demonstrate their negativity.’ – Raheem DeVaughn

‘The relationship with time changes when you’re captive.’ – Ingrid Betancourt

‘You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.’ – Mitski

‘I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.’ – Alfred Adler

‘I have a love-hate relationship with cardio.’ – Jordyn Woods

‘Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.’ – Pepa

‘Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life story across 5,000 years and you chart the evolution of our conflicted relationship with sex and with the female body.’ – Bettany Hughes

‘It’s not just the number of friends you have, and it’s not whether or not you’re in a committed relationship. It’s the quality of your close relationships that matters.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.’ – Nigel Lythgoe

‘Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.’ – Amy Grant

‘Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Have gratitude for the things you’re discarding. By giving gratitude, you’re giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.’ – Marie Kondo

‘God doesn’t want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.’ – Joseph Prince

‘The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.’ – Milton Glaser

‘I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.’ – Kate Nash

‘Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?’ – John Mayer

‘In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.’ – Carol Gilligan

‘A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.’ – Fred Hampton

‘God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.’ – Frederica Mathewes-Green

‘The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.’ – Robert Crais

‘To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.’ – Steve Earle

‘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

‘I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.’ – William E. Simon

‘Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love.’ – Hozier

‘It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.’ – James Levine

‘I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.’ – Bjork

‘I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘You never know if you’re ready for a relationship.’ – Jocelyn Wildenstein

‘You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.’ – Tammy Faye Bakker

‘Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.’ – Piet Mondrian

‘Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, ‘If they can make you laugh, it’s the sexiest thing on earth.” – Helen Mirren

‘I’ve always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don’t have any siblings. I’m completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.’ – Marie Lu

‘There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it’s not about the music itself but the context in which you hear the music. For instance, listening to a piece of classical music in a film you love often changes your perception of it entirely.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘If you’re giving love and not receiving it, you’re not in the right relationship. If you’re receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.’ – Patti Stanger

‘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

‘I have a really close relationship with God. I have more conversations with God, and it’s very therapeutic to me. It helps me through a lot of trials and tribulations.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘In England, it’s a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it’s much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.’ – Alan Turing

‘The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.’ – James E. Faust

‘Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job – this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce – that’s when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.’ – Kenny Stills

‘Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.’ – Pink

‘I’m a proud strict mom and, you know, I’m really proud of the two daughters I’ve raised. And I’m especially proud of my relationship with them. We’re very close. I think we’re good friends.’ – Amy Chua

‘Having a two-year-old is very hard. I feel like I’m in a relationship with an emotionally unstable woman who is also physically abusive and never gets in trouble for it.’ – Ali Wong

‘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

‘I’m in a long-term relationship with Diego Serrano, and I’m very happy. He’s the worst influence that I have ever had in my life, and I love him for it.’ – Cote de Pablo

‘The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,… Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don’t want to do that and that’s their decision.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.’ – William F. Buckley, Jr.

‘I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there’s a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my – three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.’ – Hamilton Jordan

‘I had a totally normal relationship with my body.’ – Scarlett Pomers

‘We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.’ – Larry David

‘Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.’ – James McAvoy

‘You know, that, with every choice you make there are consequences. And so if you have an amazing husband and you have a child, you go outside that marriage and outside that relationship, there are consequences that follow.’ – Heather Headley

‘We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.’ – Alice Waters

‘Love fades away after a point but it’s each other’s temperament that keeps the relationship strong and on. If you have a sense of loyalty and belonging, you’ll sail through.’ – Rahul Vaidya

‘I have loved being a step-mum to Brian’s children. We have a great relationship, and it’s lovely to spend time with the grandchildren.’ – Anita Dobson

‘OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.’ – Robert Winston

‘Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.’ – Lupita Nyong’o

‘History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.’ – Lady Gaga

‘He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression… I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.’ – Ronan Farrow

‘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

‘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

‘If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘I have heard, ‘Never go to bed angry,’ and that makes sense. Unless you’re always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.’ – Diplo

‘It takes bravery to end a relationship.’ – Leona Lewis

‘You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.’ – Steve Harvey

‘Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it’s coming to tell you something about you that you’re acting like you don’t know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘Religion is not man’s relationship to God, it is man’s relationship to man.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I’m very close with them.’ – Logan Lerman

‘It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.’ – Jim Carrey

‘Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.’ – Bad Bunny

‘If you’re a Christian you don’t sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they’re happy and they’re committed in a relationship.’ – Howard Stern

‘I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.’ – Joyce Banda

‘I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.’ – Lawrence Bender

‘I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.’ – Taylor Swift

‘The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.’ – Greg Boyle

‘I’m quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That’s been my approach, for the most part.’ – Orlando Bloom

‘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

‘I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.’ – Alice Munro

‘A big part of that quarterback-receiver relationship is communication. You’ve got to be on the same page because if you’re not, it just doesn’t work. Then you’re kind of guessing.’ – Chris Hogan

‘A relationship is based on communication.’ – John Cena

‘The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.’ – Natalie Goldberg

‘In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can’t give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it’s just been easier to be single.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.’ – Ben Carson

‘The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.’ – Mark Goddard

‘The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.’ – Brene Brown

‘Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘I’m not one of these guys who’s constantly in a relationship, not at all.’ – Robert Pattinson

‘I am not gay; I don’t have a relationship with Ricky Martin.’ – Maluma

‘Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘For a black person who’s Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that’s a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone’s experience is different. Especially black women and black men.’ – Santan Dave

‘Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.’ – Angela Ahrendts

‘I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people’s pleasure. It’s an adventure.’ – Emily Blunt

‘The Braintrust developed organically out of the rare working relationship among the five men who led and edited the production of ‘Toy Story’ – John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, and Joe Ranft.’ – Edwin Catmull

‘Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it’s been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father’s mistakes. At least if you’re making mistakes, make different mistakes.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.’ – Jennie Finch

‘Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We’ve had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.’ – Amitabh Bachchan

‘The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone – it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it’s also very interesting.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be – it might be homelessness, whatever – and lately, I’ve redefined success as ‘fulfilling your soul’s purpose.” – Jack Canfield

‘Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.’ – Nydia Velazquez

‘I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘Being in a relationship doesn’t mean you’re successful. You are successful if you are happy.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage – everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.’ – Lee Strobel

‘I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it’s a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we’re neighbors and all members of the human family.’ – Fred Rogers

‘It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘I didn’t have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.’ – Brian Welch

‘I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?’ – The Weeknd

‘I have a different relationship with Chucky because he’s been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I’ve been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I’m like, ‘Aww! It’s my Chucky!” – Fiona Dourif

‘Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.’ – Adam Brody

‘I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.’ – Ron White

‘When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong – either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship – the impact on a child’s later life can be devastating.’ – Iain Duncan Smith

‘My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: ‘This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.” – Prince William

‘Having people I love around me – friends and family – is great, but I don’t necessarily need a relationship.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘I believe that, the moment I had a very personal relationship with God and I really knew what his Word said, it was not about religion. It was about knowing that what the Bible tells us is what He has left us. It changed my life. It filled the void in my heart. That is why I am so grateful.’ – Keylor Navas

‘I’ve come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.’ – Tucker Max

‘Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me – when I record the details of what I’m going through, whether it’s a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I’ve come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘What’s worse – loneliness or a relationship that inevitably leads to costly therapy sessions?’ – Ana Kasparian

‘God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject.’ – Sanya Malhotra

‘The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I’m so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.’ – Elia Kazan

‘In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘I’ve always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I’m ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.’ – Jennifer Love Hewitt

‘The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.’ – Jack Anderson

‘By itself, love is never enough to sustain a relationship.’ – Mark Manson

‘When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship – which means something that exists between two or more people – for the most part reinforces people’s separateness as individual entities.’ – Ram Dass

‘But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we’re just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.’ – David Herbert Donald

‘For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Clear communication is paramount for any relationship to become stronger.’ – Rubina Dilaik

‘I did nothing to deserve God’s love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God’s family.’ – Steven Curtis Chapman

‘Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.’ – Mac Miller

‘Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. And it’s a relationship we should be strengthening, not weakening.’ – Lee Zeldin

‘The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.’ – Martin Scorsese

‘My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter Julia as well.’ – Lacey Chabert

‘It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one’s own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Nah, I’ve always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They’ve been very close to me and we have a great relationship.’ – Lionel Messi

‘The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.’ – Theresa May

‘I’m enjoying dating. I’m single, though, I’m not in a relationship.’ – Matt Czuchry

‘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

‘The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.’ – Natalia Kills

‘Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.’ – Richard Foster

‘The most important relationship a head coach has on his team isn’t with the other coaches, the owner or the general manager. It’s with the quarterback. He’s the one who runs the show on the field; He’s the ultimate extension of his coach. If there isn’t a high level of mutual trust between them, both coach and quarterback will be doomed.’ – Bruce Arians

‘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

‘While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn’t want to be in the wrong one.’ – Lauren Graham

‘Once you accept the existence of God – however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him – then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.’ – Morris West

‘When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.’ – DeForest Soaries

‘Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.’ – Owen Paterson

‘I’ve thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress – the Democrats and Republicans – would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they’d be willing to try.’ – Bob Dole

‘I grew up very religious, and I don’t have a great relationship with religion.’ – Brad Pitt

‘My first relationship was from when I was about 15 to 19. My second relationship was kind of like a rebound, but also a really important part of my journey – he was very emotionally manipulative and just wanted me to be an accessory.’ – Kali Uchis

‘My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.’ – Chris Hemsworth

‘I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it.’ – Nick Cannon

‘I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘I have a very bad relationship with mice.’ – Casey Affleck

‘I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity’s relationship with God.’ – Timothy Radcliffe

‘However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.’ – Francesca Annis

‘It’s a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.’ – Rick Baker

‘To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.’ – Glenn Gould

‘For years, Israeli and American intelligence agencies assumed that if Iran were to gain the ability to build a bomb, it would be a result of its relationship with Russia, which was building a nuclear reactor for Iran at a site called Bushehr and had assisted the Iranians in their missile-development program.’ – Ronen Bergman

‘The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.’ – Frank Lowy

‘It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.’ – Eknath Easwaran

‘You’ve got to build a relationship. You can’t just deal with people when it’s business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.’ – Markwayne Mullin

‘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

‘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 Stevenson I

‘A baby adds more stress to a relationship – you’re up all night and it really is a test. Everything changes. You can’t just go for lunch or dinner or a drink. That goes out the window, and you’re dealing with the serious stuff.’ – Nadine Coyle

‘Just because you’re married doesn’t mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can’t have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand – and respect – that you need time apart doing what you want to do.’ – John Rampton

‘People that spend time in a foxhole – they’re never going to find that relationship anywhere else again… Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets – more than even the Vietnam vets – there’s a brotherhood.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘I’ve always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.’ – John Travolta

‘I honestly don’t think twice about a relationship with people who don’t reciprocate respect.’ – Porsha Williams

‘My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself ‘the American’ at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.’ – Mark Rylance

‘I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘I was in New Zealand and met this girl. Her sister dared me to bungee jump, so I did! It was a spur-of-the-moment decision – I wanted to impress the girl, and it worked! We were in a relationship after that.’ – Theo James

‘I didn’t marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too – my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.’ – Carmen Dell’Orefice

‘In a successful union of two people, in any relationship there always has to be a give and take.’ – Mohnish Bahl

‘There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.’ – Ruth Ozeki

‘But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film’s about. A very straightforward young woman who’s very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.’ – Jenny Agutter

‘Personally, I do the best work with people I’m closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.’ – Atticus Ross

‘The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it’s not without doubt but in spite of doubt.’ – Rollo May

‘Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.’ – Lemmy

‘I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they’re made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling – atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it’s hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.’ – Eli Roth

‘The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it’s a very powerful relationship if it’s healthy.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘In a relationship, whether you got money to deal with it or no money to deal with it, the best relationships are going to be the ones where you understand each other.’ – Young Dolph

‘I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24×7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.’ – Kajol

‘Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.’ – Walter Gropius

‘My relationship with the Grizzlies might change, but my relationship with Memphis won’t. What I feel inside and how I feel about Memphis and its people has nothing to do with a franchise or a temporary thing. It’s not going to change.’ – Marc Gasol

‘I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.’ – Pedro Almodovar

‘I hate the whole concept of comfort! It’s like when people say: ‘Well we’re not really in love but we’re in a comfortable relationship.’ You’re abandoning a lot of ideas when you’re too into comfort.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you… Are we the same? Good lord, no! That’s why Europe’s fun – it’s fun because it’s different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same – it’s ghastly.’ – Nigel Farage

‘I used to do an impersonation of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in a romantic relationship.’ – Big Show

‘You’ve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn’t mean you can’t provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.’ – David E. Kelley

‘I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it’s a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you’re in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘I am a relationship girl. That’s kind of just how I’m made… When you’re in my life, it’s actually very contained.’ – Charlize Theron

‘He is my son and very dear to me, and that’s the only emotion I had for him from day one. I don’t know any other way to live this relationship. I also have a lovely daughter-in-law, who is such a beautiful person and the best thing in the world is my granddaughter Misha. She is the most precious gift I have got from Shahid.’ – Supriya Pathak

‘My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.’ – Stevie Nicks

‘I have no plans to go public if I get into a relationship. I will do my best to safeguard the privacy of the person I love and respect her feelings.’ – Song Joong-ki

‘There are some women who have made some really hurting remarks about my relationship with my husband Himanshu Malhotra. They even dared to ask me if I have divorced him just because I don’t put my pictures with him too often. Now that is really ridiculous!’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.’ – Thiruvalluvar

‘My kids are really good with social media; that’s really an important dynamic in our relationship with our audience, and it’s a great way to connect.’ – Kris Jenner

‘Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.’ – David A. Bednar

‘To be a poet, it’s a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you’re happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.’ – Eileen Myles

‘The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘All of your stakeholders have to have the right seat at the table, and they all have to be successful. It’s hard to do, but you have to keep your eye on developing a meaningful relationship where it is beneficial for them. Then you work backwards from there.’ – Brian France

‘Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?’ – Jordan Peterson

‘Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you’ve done or didn’t do in your relationship – and it’s just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.’ – Jessica Alba

‘We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.’ – Edward T. Hall

‘It’s a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.’ – Patricia Riggen

‘The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.’ – Connie Chung

‘The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.’ – Frans de Waal

‘The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.’ – Steve Hilton

‘I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that’s what granola bars are for.’ – Lilly Singh

‘The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.’ – Draymond Green

‘Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I would describe my relationship with my couch as symbiotic – others would describe it as dangerous.’ – Lucas Till

‘Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father’s a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.’ – Ralphie May

‘Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.’ – Greg Louganis

‘We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘But mostly, it’s a book about my relationship with my father.’ – Alison Bechdel

‘Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.’ – Friedrich List

‘I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.’ – Barack Obama

‘The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.’ – Samantha Power

‘But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.’ – James Baldwin

‘If you’re with someone, it’s because you’re moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.’ – Irina Shayk

‘Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.’ – Amy Jo Martin

‘The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me – such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It’s just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.’ – Beth Moore

‘I don’t want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it is something I’m really interested in.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives.’ – Mike Yaconelli

‘Cultivating a relationship with discomfort will help you discern the difference between good pain and bad.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘It is important to have face-to-face meetings, so when the players have things on their mind we talk. It is important to have a good relationship with your players. If they like you and love you – and the other way around – you will be successful.’ – Julian Nagelsmann

‘The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I’d developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the ‘We Can Be Heroes’ campaign a few years ago. That’s what started it.’ – Nathan Sawaya

‘I have worked with some of the most important players, like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Zidane, but the best are easy to work with because they are so professional. Their winning mentality, professionalism, helps the manager. Of course, sometimes I become angry, but usually my relationship with the players is calm.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don’t have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.’ – John Green

‘I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘Challenge is good for any relationship.’ – Darren Criss

‘All I can say is every relationship is different, and every personality, and everyone handles every couple’s social media differently.’ – Molly Qerim

‘I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That’s such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that’s not okay.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘I think ‘Love Sonia’ is a beautiful story of two sisters. Whoever will watch this film will remember their relationship with their sibling.’ – Mrunal Thakur

‘I don’t think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With ‘Golden Heart’ I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun’s coming up.’ – Neneh Cherry

‘When you look at the decline of church attendance in America, or when you look at the decline of millennials that are not going to church in America, you want to have the conversation that a lot of times people are hit more with religion and rules and the systems than they are with the love of God and having a personal relationship with Christ.’ – Kirk Franklin

‘There are ups and downs in every relationship. But that does not mean that couples should separate or get down to inhuman behaviour.’ – Rishi Kapoor

‘My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents’ attention: an audience.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.’ – Tony Hoare

‘Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.’ – David Bohm

‘I love having a sister. Its a great relationship that you dont understand unless you have one, I guess.’ – Emily Deschanel

‘The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I had a boyfriend when I was 15, out of high school. It just was with him for a very long time and I went right into my second very long relationship with no dates in between.’ – Camila Morrone

‘I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I’m not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘I have always had a strange relationship to Portland, Oregon. It’s a great city. The people who live there love it openly and loudly, and it regularly appears on the lists of best American cities. But something has always felt weird to me about Portland. And not in the way Portlanders mean ‘weird’ in their slogan ‘Keep Portland weird.” – W. Kamau Bell

‘As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life – in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.’ – Kenzaburo Oe

‘I had a great time making the last movie, ‘Eclipse.’ We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930’s. But I was waiting for ‘Breaking Dawn’ because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.’ – Nikki Reed

‘The key to doing ‘Harold and Kumar’ movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar’s relationship and friendship believable, and we don’t actually work on being that funny.’ – John Cho

‘When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that’s not it. It’s a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he’s in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he’s swinging through the city.’ – John Dykstra

‘The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.’ – Christopher Eccleston

‘Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We’ve been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.’ – Andrew Eldritch

‘I think a good relationship is about collaboration.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he’s strange and I’m wonderful.’ – Mike Ditka

‘I think there’s a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.’ – Alexandra Fuller

‘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

‘A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.’ – Alex Grey

‘Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We’re not talking about if you’re black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don’t know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place – your affection, your emotional connection.’ – Vanessa Lachey

‘For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.’ – Larry Wall

‘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

‘Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.’ – David Whyte

‘Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘Umm… I don’t judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can’t depend on no man to do anything for you. I’ve learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.’ – French Montana

‘I’ve been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?’ – Tarsem Singh

‘I’m thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I’m talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It’s just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that’s brought me closer to Him.’ – Josh Turner

‘For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You’re photographing a relationship with the person you’re shooting; there’s an exchange, and that’s what that picture is.’ – Peter Lindbergh

‘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

‘When you have a relationship with music, and it’s that deeply a part of your life, it’s so much more than a career choice for me. It’s an extension of who I am.’ – Lzzy Hale

‘I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.’ – Brian Littrell

‘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

‘And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.’ – Karlheinz Stockhausen

‘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

‘Every lesson man, every, every relationship, every experience is a blessing. You learn from it, whether good or bad.’ – August Alsina

‘The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.’ – Henry Cloud

‘If there’s three boxes that say ‘Single’, ‘In a Relationship,’ and the third one says ‘Getting Money’, I’d check the third one.’ – Bryson Tiller

‘The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.’ – Helmut Schmidt

‘I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.’ – Elfriede Jelinek

‘Laurel and Hardy have this love relationship. Why? This little Englishman screwed Hardy up, physically, every day of his life! Why is he with him the next day? It’s forgiving.’ – Bob Einstein

‘I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.’ – Lisa Bonet

‘California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.’ – Kamala Harris

‘My relationship with Twitter has evolved as my career has changed. The truth is unless you have a remarkably thick skin, as a creator, it’s a very difficult place to be.’ – Leigh Bardugo

‘It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.’ – Roy Moore

‘The Thames could be thought of as England’s longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated.’ – Jean Hanff Korelitz

‘When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you’ve both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.’ – Tobias Forge

‘What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.’ – Rick Warren

‘A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. ‘Don’t tell anyone, but…’ my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn’t saying it to her.’ – Walter Kirn

‘When people hold you in high esteem, it’s very delicate relationship. When they meet you they’re putting all their chips up. It’s make or break.’ – Henry Rollins

‘See, if there is zero possessiveness in a relationship, then one needs to put a reality check to see if things are really going fine. So, normally, everyone is a bit possessive, and so am I.’ – Kunal Khemu

‘Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘I am a twin, but my brother and I aren’t identical, so it’s not such a big deal. But when you share bunk beds and birthdays and a womb with someone, you have a special connection. It definitely feels different from the relationship I have with my other siblings – my twin and I are more connected. Jacob is a conservationist.’ – Joseph Fiennes

‘And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.’ – Keith Richards

‘Every woman I’ve had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I’m at home, I clam up and won’t discuss anything intimate or personal.’ – Jarvis Cocker

‘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

‘As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in – gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.’ – Christopher McCandless

‘I took the fear of marriage from my parents’ relationship, because I didn’t want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn’t carry it on into their own marriages.’ – John Mahoney

‘I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I’ve kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.’ – Alan Moore

‘I won’t feel I’m Roman’s boss just because I’m his dad. I’ve never had that relationship with him at all. It wasn’t the way we brought him up. We were friends. If Roman did something wrong, I showed that he hurt me rather than telling him off.’ – Martin Kemp

‘I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers’ unions and the districts and the states that they’re dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers’ union itself.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I have always had a good relationship with Real Madrid fans, and I feel dear to them.’ – Robinho

‘I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.’ – Adam Levine

‘My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.’ – Stephen Curry

‘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

‘Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.’ – Lauren Mayberry

‘There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every reason to suspect that Trump was going to create an adversarial relationship and that people were going to be faced with the impossible dilemma between sort-of-complicity and access.’ – Masha Gessen

”Satya’ and ‘Company’ are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.’ – Ram Gopal Varma

‘Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn’t happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.’ – Matt Cameron

‘We must understand that the British public’s relationship with Europe is – and always has been, the sporting arena aside – about the benefits we can achieve in jobs, security, and quality of life from membership and how these benefits outweigh any disadvantages.’ – Gordon Brown

‘When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you’re very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there’s that feeling that the grass is always greener.’ – Ciara

‘My mum wants me to get married – and have children, of course. She’s met Gaga; we’ve been dating a while. We’re in a committed relationship, and I’m really happy in my relationship. I’m a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.’ – Taylor Kinney

‘The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.’ – Wynonna Judd

‘The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.’ – Trent Reznor

‘A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn’t: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘Finding a contractor is a lot like online dating – you don’t know a lot about the person before meeting them but you expect a lot out of the relationship!’ – Bryan Baeumler

‘I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.’ – Wislawa Szymborska

‘The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you’re nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.’ – Jim Parrack

‘There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.’ – Stanislav Grof

‘We have the grounds to be satisfied with the achievements obtained in the promotion of Vietnam-India ties in recent years, as well as to look forward to and believe in a stronger relationship in the future.’ – Nguyen Phu Trong

‘Temptation is just that – she’s the girl you claim you don’t want, but in the moment, you have more drinks than you should in the club. One thing leads to another, and suddenly you’ve done something really stupid. You’ve jeopardized what could’ve potentially been a really great relationship, all due to temptation.’ – Ne-Yo

‘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

‘I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.’ – Taylor Swift

‘We’re all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it’s a really difficult world. And for me, God has always – in my relationship with Christ – He’s given me hope and peace.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘My parents’ relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.’ – Eddie Murphy

‘While ‘The Endless Summer’ poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.’ – John Van Hamersveld

‘Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I feel there’s a power in theatre, but it’s an indirect power. It’s like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can’t afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.’ – Tony Kushner

‘Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn’t an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn’t able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.’ – Trisha Yearwood

‘You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘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

‘Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.’ – Kabir Bedi

‘How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘I’ve often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it’s happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one’s suspicions.’ – Eve Babitz

‘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

‘We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter’s administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration’s problems.’ – Jim Hunt

‘Although I’ve never been in an abusive relationship, when my dad had a drink he could become very aggressive and sometimes he’d hit my mum. As a result, to this day, I hate it when people shout and get aggressive, and when people get very drunk, and it all stems back to my childhood.’ – Coleen Nolan

‘When you can have a relationship that’s like that to where everything is out in the open, you are up front, and there is open communication, it makes for a great relationship.’ – Baker Mayfield

‘I think everyone has shame about something, whether it’s a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we’re like, ‘God, I can work on that,’ or, ‘I wish I was better at doing this.” – Chrissy Metz

‘To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.’ – Peter Munk

‘The true test of a relationship is traveling together.’ – Julia Stiles

‘You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.’ – Chris Martin

‘I have the same relationship with all my team-mates. For me, all my team-mates are the same.’ – Edinson Cavani

‘I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.’ – Alex Lowe

‘I don’t think in terms of that bizarre tautology ‘value for money’ in my literary and journalistic work – and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don’t believe I’m helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I’ll resign.’ – Will Self

‘I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don’t believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.’ – Cherrelle

‘The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of – it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down.’ – Stephanie Coontz

‘It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘My relationship with God has gotten better and stronger for the simple fact that I understand it a lot better. You know, to me, God’s my best friend.’ – Jake Roberts

‘After my mother passed away, I felt as though I would never have a relationship as strong as the one that I had had with her. Then, after a lot of ups and downs, I started dating again – but I realised pretty quickly that I was never going to write cheesy love songs.’ – Amber Mark

‘I like exploring the mystery of a relationship instead of laying it all out on the table at the beginning.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘Even in the deepest love relationship – when lovers say ‘I love you’ to each other – we don’t really know what we’re saying, because language isn’t equal to the complexity of human emotions.’ – Duane Michals

‘I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.’ – Colin Firth

‘My relationship to music is such an essential part of who I am, and was a big part of my relationship with my mom.’ – Michelle Zauner

‘Communication is extremely important in any relationship – it makes the relationship that much healthier.’ – Raveena Tandon

‘My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, ‘I’m finding this quite tough, but I’m going to hang in there,’ then at the end they will say, ‘Oh God, I’m glad I hung on, it was so worth it.” – Sebastian Faulks

‘My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn’t form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.’ – Gillian Flynn

‘My brother and sister and I were latchkey kids, with a singer mother and no relationship with our father, and being in a firm is often about filling a void at home. For me, it was like having 50 big brothers.’ – Lexi Alexander

‘I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.’ – Flea

‘I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It’s been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.’ – Cameron Mathison

‘It’s pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football’s later on down the line.’ – Tim Tebow

‘I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria’s early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.’ – Emily Blunt

‘I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.’ – Christian Bale

‘Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it’s not exactly a happy relationship.’ – Cherie Blair

‘Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client’s quality world.’ – William Glasser

‘More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee’s success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘From the start of our relationship Clint told me that he wanted us always to be together and that he would take care of me forever. Clint repeatedly assured me that, regardless of whether we were married, everything he had was ours together.’ – Sondra Locke

‘China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.’ – Li Keqiang

‘Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that’s very heartening.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture.’ – Anita Sarkeesian

‘I’ve never jumped back into a relationship and I’ve never had a one-night stand, so even if lockdown hadn’t happened, I don’t think I would have been with any guys.’ – Maura Higgins

‘I’m human. I’m a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that’s natural – that’s what we all want.’ – Lara Giddings

‘I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.’ – Norman McLaren

”Sunrise Sunset’ is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.’ – Benny Cassette

‘It’s like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you’ll water your career or your relationship more.’ – Jewel

‘You can’t change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.’ – Jack Canfield

‘I exposed myself, and I exposed my relationship and deep love and trust for Ibushi in front of the world. And we want to work together and change wrestling for a brighter future.’ – Kenny Omega

‘It’s not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.’ – Ezra Klein

‘I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.’ – Zach Braff

‘I’ve always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn’t look her in the eye.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.’ – Aaron Eckhart

‘It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.’ – Jeanne Tripplehorn

‘At my aunt’s funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn’t be bound by the belief that I’m supposed to stay in anything – whether it’s a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance – if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.’ – Jill Scott

‘People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.’ – Jennifer Connelly

‘I don’t like how relationships are nowadays, it’s like ‘I own you, you own them.’ I don’t want to be in that kind of relationship.’ – Sean O’Malley

‘Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.’ – Howard Schultz

‘The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one’s own view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.’ – Paul Watzlawick

‘Anything that you do in life, whether it’s work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.’ – Nayanthara

‘It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.’ – Uma Thurman

‘Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I’ll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.’ – Tibor Benedek

‘To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice, and the rays of the sun itself at levels of efficiency that will transform our relationship to our own planet Earth.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.’ – John le Carre

‘Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘It’s the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I’m a daydreamer; I don’t feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.’ – Amin Maalouf

‘Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.’ – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

‘Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.’ – David Bowie

‘I like women but I want a meaningful relationship.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That’s one of the things that sustain our relationship.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘Hulk will always be a part of sports entertainment/professional wrestling history, and there’s nothing that’s gonna change that. His relationship with the WWE, whether it’s official or unofficial, is something that can’t really be erased.’ – Eric Bischoff

‘A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘For me, an ideal relationship is about supporting each other and having great understanding.’ – Kartik Aaryan

‘I’m really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.’ – Lynn Shelton

‘My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can’t do that if you’re 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.’ – Kevin Rudd

‘It’s easy to talk about how great love is or how you feel heartbroken after a breakup, but it’s not as easy to talk about the process of going through the end of a relationship.’ – Eric Nam

‘I needed to take a break from acting, because I really idolized it. So I came off from it, and I went on a journey to discover my relationship with God, and I became a Christian. It really just gave me so much love and light within myself. I felt secure, like I didn’t need validation from anyone else, or getting a part.’ – Letitia Wright

‘Yes, I think it’s really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.’ – Angela Davis

‘Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘We will pursue a relationship of friendship and co-operation with the United States, always rooted in mutual respect and in the defence of our fellow Mexicans who live and work honourably in that country.’ – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

‘What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.’ – Amy Sedaris

‘You know, we’re each the hero of our own story and we perceive what’s going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, ‘Well, this is my story, and I’m the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.” – Michael Sheen

‘The fact that these owners sacked me doesn’t mean that our relationship is broken. I still get on well with Florentino, and although I haven’t spoken much with Abramovich since I left Chelsea, I have no problem with him.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.’ – Lauren London

‘If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘I just have to attend someone’s birthday party or go out for dinner with someone else for us to be in a relationship. That’s not going to stop me from socialising, but tell me, which girl would want to be with a guy who goes to bed early and gives more importance to the gym?’ – Sidharth Malhotra

‘If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy – it doesn’t have to be about race, it could be about anything… you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you’re forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you’re forming a friendship.’ – Daryl Davis

‘Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.’ – David A. Bednar

‘I would be in a platonic relationship with Taylor Swift in five seconds! I’m in love with Taylor Swift.’ – Carl Nassib

‘Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.’ – Elizabeth Drew

‘We need to heal Japan-South Korea ties and further develop them based on the amicable and cooperative relationship we have cultivated since ties were normalized.’ – Fumio Kishida

‘A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. That requires open channels of communication, both with China’s leadership and the Taiwanese people.’ – Tsai Ing-wen

‘One of the things about football is, it’s a relationship business.’ – Peyton Manning

‘To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I’ve never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O’Hara.’ – Steve Erickson

‘I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.’ – Gianni Versace

‘Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.’ – Timothy Leary

‘In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.’ – Alan Kay

‘It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what’s important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.’ – Mario Andretti

‘I’m not a divorce monger by any means, but if you’re not happy in a relationship, and you’ve grown apart, it’s not healthy for a couple to stay together. It’s better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.’ – Laura Wasser

‘My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy – but then, it was never going to be.’ – Lemn Sissay

‘Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.’ – Chris Thile

‘I don’t want it to be a holiday camp, but it shouldn’t be a concentration camp either. It is about getting the balance right with my relationship with them. I will do anything for the players but I’m not their pal as well.’ – Chris Wilder

‘We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect at the local level.’ – Hilary Benn

‘A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can’t be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.’ – Kristin Hannah

‘In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.’ – Raymond Burr

‘I think the coach-player relationship is a two-way thing. You have to be willing to take suggestions as a player and vice versa.’ – J. J. Redick

‘The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.’ – Richard Owen

‘If you’re a woman, it’s almost impossible to establish a relationship. You’re too much for everybody. It’s too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you’re not, they’re fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.’ – Pope Francis

‘Every relationship that we have in our lives – our contact with each person, place, and event – serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.’ – Guy Finley

‘I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn’t sure God had a relationship with me.’ – Prince

‘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

‘Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional – you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.’ – Mark Manson

‘See, my relationship with Salman is of mutual love. But just because he is a good friend of mine, I wouldn’t want to use him for a cameo in my film or ask him to endorse my film. That is not me.’ – Puneet Issar

‘You have nothing if you’re texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push ‘reply all.’ I mean, since we’re lying, we might as well lie to everybody.’ – Steve Harvey

‘I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I’m able to talk to her about anything.’ – Jessica Szohr

‘There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.’ – Sandy Koufax

‘Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.’ – Leona Lewis

‘I really love ‘Bicycle Thief.’ That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.’ – Mel Rodriguez

‘You cannot have a relationship with someone you can’t trust.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘A lot of people have experienced a relationship betrayal, even if it was when they were 16 and with their first love.’ – Suranne Jones

‘I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.’ – Billy Graham

‘It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.’ – Drew Scott

‘When you’re doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn’t in a relationship and my career wasn’t going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.’ – Ray Liotta

‘I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there’s this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.’ – Kunal Khemu

‘The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Burberry was about building a relationship. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it’s everybody.’ – Angela Ahrendts

‘I only drive in movies. I know that’s very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘Whenever you’re dealing with something that’s difficult to describe, that you can’t get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what’s easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is ‘romance.” – Diana Gabaldon

‘Today’s designers don’t care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.’ – Oleg Cassini

‘I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.’ – Georg Simmel

‘Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.’ – Edgardo Osorio

‘Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.’ – Les Brown

‘Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship – we certainly have not had an affair.’ – Bradley Walsh

‘That’s something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you’ve never met.’ – G. Willow Wilson

‘The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.’ – Jim Yong Kim

‘The relationship between ‘My Chemical Romance’ and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.’ – Frank Iero

‘My dad and I’s relationship before he cheated on my mom… I think it was such a healthy father and son relationship. He always knew I was gay, and he never ever shamed me for being gay or anything. He shamed other people for if they had anything to say.’ – Bretman Rock

‘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

‘Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.’ – Phil Anselmo

‘Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.’ – Trent Reznor

‘The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.’ – Irving Kirsch

‘It can be easy to let all sorts of things in your life slide, including your relationship.’ – Kate Garraway

‘It’s nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.’ – Jeff Goldblum

‘Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.’ – Edwin Lutyens

‘The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you’re compatible or not. You find out what’s annoying about that person, and whether or not you’re willing to put up with that because you love them and you don’t want to be alone.’ – Alice Lowe

‘I’ve had a wonderful, longstanding relationship with VH1 over the course of my music career, and I couldn’t be more excited to enter into this new chapter as resident host for ‘Big Morning Buzz.” – Nick Lachey

‘I read Naomi Klein’s ‘No Logo’ when I was 15. It’s one of the things that’s shaped my relationship to fame – to endorsements, to selling things.’ – Andrew Garfield

‘If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.’ – Tom Hardy

‘As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.’ – John Piper

‘As a young girl, football is where I met the people who, to this day, are my best friends. It is also where I began to learn about the important relationship between hard work, teamwork, and fun.’ – Ali Krieger

‘The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.’ – John Frusciante

‘Life is hard so why does my relationship have to be hard at the same time?’ – Rachel Lindsay

‘No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘As soon as I sense you’re developing feelings, I’m going to cut it off, because I’m not interested in a relationship and I’m emotionally unavailable.’ – Trevor Bauer

‘I don’t know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.’ – Michelle Williams

‘The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘There’s something so great when you’re watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it’s like a real relationship.’ – Derek Cianfrance

‘Texting has definitely improved the communication between the deaf and hearing communities, but it shouldn’t be… a substitute for learning the language to really connect with someone, especially someone you want to date or have a relationship with.’ – Millicent Simmonds

‘It wasn’t rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.’ – Patricia Routledge

‘I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that’s involves business and friendship – and the business part comes to an end – things always get a little blurry.’ – Hank Haney

‘Let’s face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn’t going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It’s just when they step over the line that, you know, enough’s enough.’ – Elton John

‘We all have something about ourselves that we’d change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody’s exempted from the realities of life and all those things.’ – Keri Hilson

‘A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they’re good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.’ – Miroslav Volf

‘By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.’ – David A. Bednar

‘My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you’re 13 and you think you’re too cool for your parents. When you’re embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.’ – Hilary Duff

‘When I am in a relationship, I give it my 100 per cent. But then, if it doesn’t work, you cannot help it. You cannot move ahead with something which isn’t working.’ – Nayanthara

‘My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I’d be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids – I like to have a happy relationship with them.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it’s all right. I don’t think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn’t mean he’s going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren’t gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.’ – Anderson Silva

‘A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that’s important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you’re allowing someone else to treat you.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘Family – and certainly kids and a stable relationship – is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.’ – Brad Pitt

‘Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn’t honor me.’ – Garcelle Beauvais

‘The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.’ – Courtney Act

‘I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.’ – Chris Evans

‘Every new conversation, every new relationship, brings new challenges and opportunities for honest expression.’ – Mark Manson

‘I am more respectful of the parasocial relationship of myself and my fans than anything Damien Hirst does between himself and his collectors.’ – Caroline Calloway

‘My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn’t know existed.’ – Steve Harvey

‘There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.’ – Norah Jones

‘This is my seventh decade… and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again… songs with which I have had a great relationship.’ – Eddy Arnold

‘Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.’ – Robert Cormier

‘Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico’s leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.’ – Doug Ducey

‘The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It’s to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn’t work, you can’t force those things.’ – Kate Hudson

‘I’ve never been that girl who has to be in a relationship. My job has given me such a big, full life and, while I know it’s not quite the same as having an intimate relationship, I do have a lot of friends and family.’ – Roisin Conaty

‘It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I love my husband so much. I love our family. I love our dynamic. I’m proud to be in the relationship that I am because it’s based on love. Pure love.’ – Tamera Mowry

‘I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren’t right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.’ – Ray Liotta

‘As much as I’m not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it’s quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.’ – Annie Leibovitz

‘For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.’ – Sunil Mittal

‘The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.’ – Gary Bettman

‘When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.’ – Stevie Nicks

‘I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it’s not likely to happen the way they are going about it.’ – Jennifer Beals

‘The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely different way. For me, it was a turning point in our relationship. I think that he took a completely dishonorable position.’ – Roman Abramovich

‘If you really love your partner, then the relationship is worth fighting for in the end.’ – Jeffrey Osborne

‘China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions.’ – Li Keqiang

‘I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn’t the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.’ – Steven Berkoff

‘The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.’ – Hans Adolf Krebs

‘I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what’s possible.’ – Jessica Stockholder

‘One of the things I’m most proud of in Atlanta is that I had a great relationship with our fans and I think they knew what I was all about. They respected me, showed me nothing but love.’ – Al Horford

‘It’s tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it’s really just concentration and focus.’ – David Sanborn

‘Comic timing… is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.’ – Colleen Haskell

‘Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘In the startup work environment, you get to have a relationship with your boss, the investors, and the key members of the team. Startups are like families – you see the good, the bad and the ugly, but in the end, you’ve got each other’s back.’ – Clay Clark

‘To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we’ve made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem. Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is that it’s very much a crime, and a very serious one.’ – Marcia Clark

‘I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.’ – Rachel Weisz

‘It’s kind of cliche, but communication is the biggest thing in a relationship. You have to talk; you have to express yourselves. You don’t want to look back and resent not being heard.’ – Nick Lachey

‘Having girlfriends is… I can’t do it. It doesn’t mean I don’t hang out with girls. It just means that I don’t like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on – because I don’t listen to adults when it comes to most things – is that I’m too young to have a girlfriend.’ – Jaden Smith

‘I spent eight years with Berlusconi, and I still have a good relationship with him.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘I think it’s also important for people to really see that your identity doesn’t come just from what you do but who you are. My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing to me. Because of that, I don’t have to change whether I am one of the most popular guys in football.’ – Tim Tebow

‘A woman can be harassed and then go on to have a good working relationship with the man harassing her.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘Being associated with Malabar Gold has been wonderful, a relationship which is close to my heart with moments that are special to every Indian.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘People’s view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.’ – Laura Linney

‘What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.’ – William Glasser

‘Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.’ – Ann Oakley

‘Maybe girls think that I can never be in a relationship and I can only give advice to other men to not fall in love or get committed to a girl. But that’s not true.’ – Kartik Aaryan

‘When I say ‘yes’ to a movie it’s usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it’s because I’m enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you’re on board because you think you can do something with it.’ – John Travolta

‘I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.’ – Nick Cannon

”Frozen’ definitely isn’t about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.’ – Idina Menzel

‘I don’t have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it’s not like us anymore. It’s the idea of Notch and the ‘Minecraft’ community.’ – Markus Persson

‘There’s always a time in a relationship when you can pull back. Three years ago when I realized I was falling for a guy with a complicated medical history, I decided not to exit. Believe me, I made the right decision.’ – Pam Shriver

‘I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don’t know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘A relationship takes two people to make or break it.’ – Lorenzo Lamas

‘How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often. But I speak to my mum very regularly and have a close relationship with my parents.’ – Will Poulter

‘Our relationship with Christ is something we cannot just turn on and off. It is a part of us. On our best, and our worst, we are in this thing for life… and then some.’ – Bart Millard

‘I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.’ – Taylor Swift

”Heartbreak Heard Around the World’ is about me and my girl, and I’m just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I’m just kind of expressing my love for her.’ – Jacob Latimore

‘There’s the theory that nudity doesn’t really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.’ – Tim Robbins

‘Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I’ve learned so much. I’m happier than I’ve every been.’ – Paris Hilton

‘Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.’ – Kevin Hart

‘I don’t know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It’s when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn’t enough in a relationship – understanding and communication are very important aspects.’ – Yuvraj Singh

‘It’s just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.’ – Bruce Greenwood

‘I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.’ – Daryl Hall

‘Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.’ – Tim Allen

‘I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.’ – Taylor Swift

‘As you can see from ‘Symptomatic of a relationship gone sour’ I have definitely done my fair share of sinning, so I just want to recount my story and how I have come to terms with myself.’ – Julia Fox

‘I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.’ – Norah Jones

‘I’ve been working on my relationship with God, and when you work on your relationship with God, it gets to a point where you don’t want to walk down the sinful road anymore.’ – Hopsin

‘Sometimes there’s a very special relationship between a mother and her son.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘I wasn’t rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn’t a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.’ – Randa Abdel-Fattah

‘There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public’s business. That time has passed.’ – Frank Murphy

‘You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘One of the classic mistakes is we think if we get closer to someone by just listening to all of their relationship woes, we’re going to suddenly end up romantically involved.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘Communication is key in any relationship – especially in a team sport, and football is the ultimate team sport.’ – Mike Daniels

‘I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn’t right for me.’ – Portia de Rossi

‘I’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.’ – Taylor Swift

‘You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won’t function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.’ – Ian Dunbar

‘It’s hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.’ – Janet Reno

‘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

‘The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.’ – Louis Kronenberger

‘I have a love-hate relationship with performing.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.’ – Mary Gordon

‘People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.’ – Craig Kilborn

‘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

‘There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘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

‘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

‘In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.’ – Tom C. Clark

‘I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.’ – Ben Affleck

‘I can’t get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.’ – Margaret Smith

‘I’d think, ‘In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.’ Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn’t be married if your that kind of person.’ – George Clooney

‘It’s a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there’s an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.’ – Kate Beckinsale

‘I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don’t want a relationship. Or when you’ve just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it’s kind of cool being single.’ – Breckin Meyer

‘Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They’re both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn’t change anything.’ – Mitch McConnell

‘My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don’t even notice it any more. It’s just my reality.’ – Ethan Hawke

‘I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.’ – Naveen Andrews

‘Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America – forged in adversity, will not change.’ – Mary McAleese

‘We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.’ – Vicente Fox

‘I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.’ – Dido Armstrong

‘A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.’ – Alexander Haig

‘It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.’ – Beryl Bainbridge

‘I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I’d love to prove, even on TV – even if it’s not true! – that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.’ – Nana Visitor

‘So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!’ – Eddie Izzard

‘You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.’ – Harry Browne

‘The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we’ve realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.’ – Dan Miller

‘It’s difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.’ – Michael Douglas

‘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

‘A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.’ – Adam Clayton

‘The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.’ – Richard G. Scott

‘I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies… we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.’ – Susan Griffin

‘We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.’ – Jones Very

‘In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.’ – Peter Porter

‘Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.’ – Carl Olson

‘Idleness does drive me crazy, but I’d rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.’ – Karen Allen

‘One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.’ – Harold Warner

‘The worst thing I could be accused of is that I’m a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you’re starting a relationship.’ – Matt Dillon

‘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

‘I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.’ – David Duchovny

‘The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.’ – Friedrich List

‘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

‘It’s grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I’m crazy about Jerry. I think he’s a unique character.’ – Jon Voight

‘Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money – it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.’ – David Duchovny

‘I don’t remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.’ – David Hyde Pierce

‘You can’t have a relationship when you’re shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It’s a time thing and it’s a together thing.’ – Eva Longoria

‘Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.’ – Joichi Ito

‘Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.’ – Nick Hornby

‘People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.’ – Fiona Shaw

‘Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don’t know their names, they don’t care about you, you don’t care about them.’ – Pam Grier

‘There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.’ – Ed Koch

‘President Bush will come here and there will be new ‘friends’ of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who ‘liberated’ them.’ – Robert Fisk

‘The relationships that people have – that are sexual, psychological, emotional – these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.’ – Madalyn Murray O’Hair

‘Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I’m concerned.’ – Martin Freeman

‘You know, we’re not on stage, we’re not doing a play, so we don’t have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.’ – Virginia Madsen

‘One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is… I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.’ – Sam Mendes

‘Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?’ – Sue Johanson

‘The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about.’ – David Attenborough

‘I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.’ – Daniel Smith

‘Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can’t help their careers, then they’re not going to be interested.’ – David Steinberg

‘I’ve never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I’d be packing a piece.’ – Jim Dine

‘I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.’ – Dante Hall

‘On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial… whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.’ – Edward Albert

‘Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.’ – Samuel P. Huntington

‘Religion is man’s attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.’ – Victoria Jackson

‘I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans.’ – Wynonna Judd

‘It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.’ – Larry Harvey

‘You can have all sorts of relationships, but there’s something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.’ – Beth Orton

‘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

”Jackass: The Movie’ is great. I think it’s in the tradition of physical comedy, which I’m really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.’ – Matthew Barney

‘The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I’m from. Well, I can’t write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.’ – Billy Ray Cyrus

‘Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.’ – Cheryl Ladd

‘We’ve been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney – with tax advantages and strategic partners – that we just weren’t able to do.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient’s mind.’ – Michael Ondaatje

‘The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.’ – Roger Mudd

‘This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.’ – Roger Penrose

‘I’ve been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.’ – Smokey Robinson

‘So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that’s exactly how I approached it – only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.’ – Smokey Robinson

‘America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.’ – Jenifer Lewis

‘At first we got along real well. Now… it’s pretty much just a professional relationship.’ – Jose Carreras

‘It’s very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship – whether it’s a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.’ – Kathy Valentine

‘I’m open-minded. I don’t consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I’ve had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.’ – Dana Plato

‘Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.’ – John Robinson

‘There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.’ – Bob Menendez

‘I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.’ – Ira Levin

‘There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.’ – Sadie Frost

‘Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.’ – Izabella Scorupco

‘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

‘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

‘They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.’ – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

‘A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.’ – Richard V. Allen

‘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