Relationships Quotes

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.