Relationship Quotations | Page 7

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.

I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time than I spend performing anywhere else in the world. I have a great relationship with the people of Ohio, and it's great to be near the OSU when I come to Columbus.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.

I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.

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 developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with everything they do.

I was in New Zealand and met this girl. Her sister dared me to bungee jump, so I did! It was a spur-of-the-moment decision - I wanted to impress the girl, and it worked! We were in a relationship after that.

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.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

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

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy's life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.

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.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

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.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

Christian children should be taught at an early age that everything they receive is because of God's grace and love. They will grow up more appreciative and begin to understand that they, too, must have a relationship with Christ. Christian children should also be taught how to give.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.