Relationships Quotes
The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.
We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
What makes us threaten the things we want most?
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.
My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.
We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.
There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.