Relationship Quotes

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
– John Howard
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.
– Toby Young
Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
– Leona Lewis
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
– Paul Berg
Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
– Harold Ramis
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
Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
– Lauren Graham
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
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
– Susie Orbach
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
– Pete Rose
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
– Sara Paretsky
Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.
– Roger Andrew Taylor
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
My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.
– Mike Leigh
My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
– Anthony Horowitz
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
– Gunter Grass
My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.
– Alexandra Kerry
My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.
– Joey Lauren Adams
My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
– Usain Bolt
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
– Deana Carter
My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
– Eleanor Porter
My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
– Saku Koivu
My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.
– Steven Jesse Bernstein
My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.
– Mark Ruffalo
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
– Augusten Burroughs
My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
– Lena Dunham
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
– Jane Fonda
My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
– Emily Watson
My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.
– Chris Hemsworth
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
– Michael Haneke
My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.
– Kathy Ireland
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
– Douglass North
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.
– Emily Watson
My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.
– Trevor Phillips
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
– Jimmy Chamberlin
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
– Henry Louis Gates
Mr. Geithner is an excellent minister. We have a good personal relationship.
– Wolfgang Schauble
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
– Timothy Radcliffe
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
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
– Ornette Coleman
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
– Joichi Ito
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.
– Matthew Ashford
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
– Tina Weymouth
Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.
– Robert Pozen
Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.
– Joseph Jarman
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
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
– Peter L. Berger
Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
– Kevin James
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
– Jonathan Safran Foer
It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
– Blair Underwood
It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.
– Lynda Barry
It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.
– Priscilla Presley
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
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
It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.
– Rosario Dawson
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 Kilcher
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
It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.
– Novak Djokovic
It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
– Zack Snyder
It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
– Keira Knightley
It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.
– Christina Aguilera
It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.
– Rufus Sewell
It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.
– Rachel Bilson
It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
– Richard Donner
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
– Jim Hodges
It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
– Blair Underwood
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
– Jane Campion
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
– Rick Derringer
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.
– William Devane
It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
– Jeanne Tripplehorn
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
– Lisa Snowdon
It was a mutual relationship.
– Monica Lewinsky
It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
– Daniel Ellsberg
It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
– Nigel Lythgoe
It takes bravery to end a relationship.
– Leona Lewis
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.
– Eric Stoltz
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
– Groucho Marx
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
– Andrew Cohen
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
It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
– Anthony Storr
It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
– Bob Corker
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
It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.
– David Cameron
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
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.
– Thomas Szasz
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
– Pierre Pettigrew
In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.
– Elisabetta Canalis
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
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
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
– Michael Ondaatje
In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.
– Shalom Harlow
In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'
– Anna Chlumsky
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
In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
– Zoe Lister-Jones
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
In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.
– Simon Baker
In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
– Kina Grannis
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
In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.'
– Michael Rapaport