Relationship Quotes

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
– John le Carre
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
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
– Donna Rice
Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.
– Hu Jintao
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
– Paris Hilton
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
– Doug Coupland
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
– Lauryn Hill
At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
– Jose Carreras
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
– Hugh Jackman
As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
– Erik Qualman
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
– Boris Kodjoe
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.
– Rupert Holmes
As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.
– Patti Stanger
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
As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
– Gerhard Schroder
Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.
– Dominic Cooper
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.
– June Singer
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
And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.
– Alex Lifeson
And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
– Keith Richards
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.
– Juan Goytisolo
And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.
– Ricky Williams
And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
– Trish Stratus
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
– Karlheinz Stockhausen
And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
– John R. Allen
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
– Kevin Kelly
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.
– Herman Hesse
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
– Tom Hooper
America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.
– Jenifer Lewis
Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.
– Ron Fournier
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
– Christopher McCandless
All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.
– Giada De Laurentiis
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
– Jacques Ellul
Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.
– Rob Sheffield
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
– John R. Allen
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
– David Chalmers
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
– Shia LaBeouf
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
– Fiona Shaw
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
– Jennifer Aniston
A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
– Candice Swanepoel
A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
– Susannah York
A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
– Joan Cusack
A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.
– Eric Braeden
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
A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
– Nicole Scherzinger
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
– Dee Dee Myers
A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
– Adam Levine
A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.
– Cathy Guisewite
A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
– Patti Stanger
A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
– Tab Hunter
A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
– T. Berry Brazelton
A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
– Maximilian Schell
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
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
– Jack Anderson
You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.
– Pamela Anderson
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
– Barbara de Angelis
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
– Maya Angelou
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
It truly saddens me, however, that the relationship so nurtured between our two countries should have been marred by the Second World War. The Empress and I can never forget the many kinds of suffering so many people have undergone because of that war. At the thought of the scars of war that they bear, our hearts are filled with deep sorrow and pain.
– Akihito
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
I explained the American situation. I promised to pass on the substance of her communication to Washington as soon as possible. I did that. Well, certainly, the issue was difficult and painful. The relationship between Mrs. Tanaka and me and our two governments was difficult, but it was not painful.
– Howard Baker
Gonzales's nomination may very well do us more harm internationally because of his relationship with the terror memos and that is a different story.
– Joe Biden
The reason that we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none.
– Michael Badnarik
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
My mother only called when she wanted things. She doesn't know me, so how could she have a feeling for me? Still, I see her each time I pass a mirror. The resemblance shocks me. Someday I'll go back to make a new stab at a relationship, but not yet. Happily, her approval is no longer necessary. No one's is. I'm no longer driven to prove I'm worthy. That war is over, even if there are still days when I have to do battle.
– Anita Baker
I have a love-hate relationship with performing.
– Sarah Brightman
I'd like to do, you know, a lighter film with a beautiful girl and an interesting relationship developing. Humor and slapstick. It's all gravy.
– Adrien Brody
Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship.
– John Chancellor
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
– Tom C. Clark
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
– Adam Clayton
I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.
– Russell Crowe
The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.
– Russell Crowe
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
– Barbara Colorose
I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.
– John Denver
This is my first long-term relationship... and I can't wait to see her at the end of the day. She's the cutest girl in the world.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
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
Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn't want to meet the other person after hours. That's also true for the other way round.
– David Duchovny
I don't socialise with Gillian just because we're working together all the time. You can't describe our relationship as 'like' or 'dislike'. We've been thrown together, two people who don't know each other and forced to spend more time together than married people do.
– David Duchovny
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
My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
– Jane Fonda
Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.
– E. M. Forster
Compassion is the essence of Jesus' teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figures from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief Seattle. Yet compassion has been sentimentalized and severed from its relationship to justice-making and celebration. Creation Spirituality links the struggle for justice with the yearning for mysticism.
– Matthew Fox
Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.
– Matthew Fox
As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.
– Bill Frist
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
– Jean Genet
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
I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relationship with many people whom I otherwise would not have met. I also discovered that in becoming a public figure, I became a focus for all kinds of projections that had little to do with me.
– Carol Gilligan
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
I think it's hard to maintain any relationship. But, Kirsten [Dunst] and I both know what's real and what's not.
– Jake Gyllenhaal
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
There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.
– Thomas Howard
Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.
– John Hughes
I'd definitely want to get married again. I'm very happy in my relationship and I love the idea of being married.
– Rachel Hunter
There's something at the root of our love-hate relationship with celebrity that I think has the makings, if you could do it in a really substantive way, of a great modern American novel. And it's something I know a lot about, and so I feel like that's the book that I should write.
– Ethan Hawke
We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
– Barbara Hershey
Paris is really young at heart - I'm the older one in the relationship. I'm always telling her not to do stuff. If she's wearing something really silly, I'm like, Don't go out wearing that.
– Nicky Hilton
In this movie, I wanted to do a black-white relationship that wasn't playing on all the old cliches. Y'know, the black guy has just got out of jail or whatever.
– Orlando Jones
There's probably a young director, male or female, out there somewhere, I don't even know their names, but maybe I'm destined to work with them, and we'll have an extraordinary relationship. I would love to work with Claire Denis because I think she's extraordinary.
– Ben Kingsley
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