Relationship Quotes

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.
– Steven Moffat
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
– Jeanne Moreau
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
– Charlize Theron
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
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
When Luke and Laura dated in 'General Hospital' when I was a kid, I was very excited. And that was a rather pathetic relationship if you break it down because let's face it: he raped her... and then they got married. There's all kinds of things that TV does to relationships.
– Lisa Edelstein
When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.
– Lea Michele
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
– Jeff Bridges
When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'
– Brendan Coyle
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
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
– Harrison Birtwistle
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
– Tori Amos
When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.
– Lee DeWyze
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
– Monica Bellucci
When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.
– Jennifer O'Neill
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
– Terri Apter
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
– Anita Diament
What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.
– Jean-Pierre Raffarin
What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.
– Salma Hayek
What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'
– Mehmet Oz
What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
– Marla Maples
What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
– Rick Warren
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
– William Glasser
What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
– Barry McGuigan
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
– Sean Durkin
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
– Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.
– Harry Mathews
Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.
– Bill Parcells
Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
– Zoe Kazan
Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.
– Lisa Edelstein
Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.
– Jenna Fischer
Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
– John W. Thompson
Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
– Kate Middleton
Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
– Danny Glover
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
We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.
– Izabella Scorupco
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
– Margaret Spellings
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
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
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.
– Kyle Chandler
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
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
– Wendell Willkie
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
– Daniel H. Wilson
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.
– Jon Ronson
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
– Julie Taymor
We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.
– Patti Stanger
We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.
– Mike Ditka
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
– Bob Cousy
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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
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
Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
– Cheryl Ladd
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
– Angela Davis
To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
– Kate Bosworth
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
– E. Stanley Jones
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
– Michelangelo Antonioni
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
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
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
– Ai Weiwei
This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.
– Monica Lewinsky
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
This relationship is going to be built on trust.
– Marla Maples
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
– Poppy Z. Brite
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.
– Warren Christopher
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
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
– Michael Tilson Thomas
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
– Tim Robbins
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
– Florence Welch
There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
– Shia LaBeouf
There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.
– Max Greenfield
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
– Peter Brimelow
There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.
– Cynthia McKinney
There's an entry point to any relationship.
– will.i.am
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'
– John Shelton Reed
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
There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.
– Jeremy Sisto
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
– Salma Hayek
There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.
– Lynette Fromme
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
– Vera Wang
There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.
– Kim Kardashian
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
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
– Robert Rauschenberg
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
– Robert Fitzgerald
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
– Barbara Olson
There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
– James Levine
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
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
– William F. Buckley, Jr.
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
There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.
– Stuart Rose
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
– Ziggy Marley
There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.
– John R. Allen
There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
– David Nail
There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.
– John R. Allen
There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
– Sadie Frost
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
There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.
– Stephen Daldry
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
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
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