Quotes about Relationships

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."
-Amelia Earhart

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
-Edgar Watson Howe

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
-Barbara Bush

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
-Carl Sandburg

"People are never against you! They are against what you stand for."
-Harold J. Duarte bernhardt

"I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her."
-Matthew Perry

"Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth."
-Theodore Reik

"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
-Luigi Pirandello

"It is better to be loved than feared."
-African Proverb

"I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever."
-Alicia Silverstone

"And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me."
-George Villiers

"We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply 'inside myself'. Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely 'outside myself'."
-Carter Heyward

"I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single."
-Penelope Cruz

"If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us."
-Tony Blair

"Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual."
-Dennis Prager

"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
-Alexander Haig

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't."
-Patrick Murray

"It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the i."
-Neville Chamberlain

"[There is a] curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines."
-Ronald Steel

"Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know."
-Charles Lamb

"Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believesthe things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people."
-Arthur Forman

"People never hate you! They just don't like themselves in your presence."
-Harold J. Duarte bernhardt

"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
-George MacDonald

"What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing."
-Alex Miller

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
-Quentin Crisp

"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves."
-Francis Schaeffer

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."
-William Manchester