Relationships Quotes

I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

~ Georges Bataille

I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

~ Sarah Ruhl

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.

~ Sarah Ruhl

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.

~ Sarah Ruhl

The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sortof silence where the absence is painful, when there’s so much tosay, but nothing is said.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

But she just couldn’t stop checking her phone; she wantedto stop, tried to stop, but the pull would not let her go. It wasa strange experience for her to be doing the obsessive phone-checkingthing. Vanessa talked about it, and she had heard storiesabout it from other friends. One date with a guy and suddenlythe phone becomes like an appendage endowed with some superpower to predict your future.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Some men are like that - they get a woman in their mind, and that's that. They will destroy themselves and everyone else over her; they will let everything else fall apart.

~ Paul Elwork

I may not be a king or a queen, but I'll be damned if I'm not treated like royalty.

~ Samuel Crone

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.

~ Bailey Vincent

Don't be fooled...If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.

~ Steve Maraboli

The business of business is relationships the business of life is human connection.

~ Robin S. Sharma

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

~ Stephen Covey

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

~ José Saramago

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

~ Mona Sutphen

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.

~ Loni Love

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.

~ James Taylor

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

~ Mayim Bialik

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

~ Audre Lorde

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

~ Felicity Jones

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

~ Mike Fitzpatrick

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

~ Peter Krause

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

~ Paul Walker

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

~ Mackenzie Davis

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

~ Shakira

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

~ Justin Halpern

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

~ Howard Shore

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

~ Barbara Bush

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

~ David Ives

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

~ Michael Arad

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

~ Frank Church

In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

~ Drew Barrymore

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

~ Harry Browne

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

~ Deborah Tannen

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

~ Kevin Hart

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

~ Paul Kalanithi

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

~ Caroline Knapp