Relationship Quotes

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
– Tim Berners-Lee
The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
– Leighton Meester
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
The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.
– John Bruton
The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.
– Penelope Wilton
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
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
– Jerzy Kosinski
The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
– Vin Diesel
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.
– Michael Ian Black
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
– Alfred Adler
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
– Tony Wilson
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
– Zoe Lister-Jones
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
– Daniel Yergin
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
– Cyril Cusack
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
– Ludwig Quidde
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
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
– Andrew Sullivan
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
– Jesse Jackson
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
– Andy Goldsworthy
The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio in fact it pays the bills.
– Robert McChesney
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
– Jessica Savitch
The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.
– Evo Morales
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
– Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
– Roger Mudd
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
– B. R. Ambedkar
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
– Gerard Depardieu
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
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
– William Kirby
The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
– Guy Lafleur
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
– Doug Coupland
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
The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.
– Leighton Meester
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 needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.
– Mika Brzezinski
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
– Wynonna Judd
The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
– Benjamin Carson
The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
– Manny Pacquiao
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
– Tony Parsons
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
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
– Ralph Fiennes
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
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
– James Bovard
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
– Anthony Kiedis
The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
– J. C. Watts
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
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
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
– Deborah Tannen
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
– Toni Collette
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
– Stanislav Grof
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
– Herbert Spencer
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
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
– C. L. R. James
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
– Henry Louis Gates
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
– Josh Silver
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
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
Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.
– Mia Maestro
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
– Baz Luhrmann
So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.
– Charisma Carpenter
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
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
– Donna Rice
So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
– Talib Kweli
So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
– George J. Mitchell
So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.
– Fred Thompson
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
– Tony Campolo
Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.
– Hu Jintao
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
– Wesley Morris
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
– Ang Lee
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
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
– John Perry Barlow
Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
– Daniel H. Wilson
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
– Victoria Jackson
Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
– Kenny Loggins
Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.
– Roman Coppola
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
– David Carradine
Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.
– Frank Carlucci
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
– Shawn Ashmore
People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
– James Spader
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
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
– Fiona Shaw
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
– Steven Moffat
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
– Keri Russell
Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
– Kevin Spacey
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
– Elia Kazan
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
– Samuel P. Huntington
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
– Andrew Cohen
Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.
– Peter L. Berger
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
– Shawn Ashmore
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
– Mason Cooley
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
– Carla Gugino
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
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
– Stellan Skarsgard
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.
– Ken Salazar
On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.
– Gennifer Flowers
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
– John Schlesinger