Relations Quotes

...modern Western culture has placed what it calls sexuality in a more and more distinctively privileged relation to our most prized constructs of individual identity, truth, and knowledge, it becomes truer and truer that the language of sexuality not only intersects with but transforms the other languages and relations by which we know.

~ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).

~ John Scalzi

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

~ Marcus Garvey

The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thing! When things get connected well, things work well! The right connections between all the things we do during the day show what we did with our lives at the end of the day and how we lived our entire days on earth to leave worthy and indelible footprints or an otherwise footprint! Mind your connections!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

~ Bill Gaede

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

~ L.m. Montgomery

I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other and to the world.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.

~ L.m. Montgomery

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

~ Francis Bacon

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock.

~ Will Rogers

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

~ Luigi Pirandello

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

~ Charles De Gaulle

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

~ Josefa Heifetz

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

~ George Dennison Prentice

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

~ Agnes De Mille

One kind word can warm three winter months.

~ Japanese Saying

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

~ Joan Baez

The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

~ Marcel Proust

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

~ Maggie Kuhn

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

~ Joseph Addison

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

~ Old Saying

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

~ W. H. Auden

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

~ George Orwell

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.

~ Frank Swinnerton

I am a part of all that I have met.

~ Lord Tennyson

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

~ Marcel Proust

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

~ George Bernard Shaw

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

~ Albert Camus

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

~ Bertrand Russell

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

~ Lewis Hastings

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

~ Ambrose Bierce

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense wish to and do start life anew.

~ Ann N. Bridge

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

~ Erich Fromm

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

~ Goethe

Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

~ Elizabeth Bowen