Relationship Quotes

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy

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.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

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.

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.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

What's the ROI of your mum? You can't put a value on a relationship.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

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.