Relationship famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
-- A. A. Milne -
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
-- A. A. Milne -
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
-- A. A. Milne -
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
-- A. A. Milne -
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
-- A. A. Milne -
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
-- A. A. Milne -
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
-- A. A. Milne -
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
-- Aaron Neville -
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
-- Abdul Kalam -
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
-- Aberjhani -
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
-- Aberjhani -
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
-- Adrienne Rich -
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
-- Aesop -
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
-- Aimee Carter -
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
-- Akio Morita -
I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
-- Al Yankovic -
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
-- Al Yankovic -
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
-- Alain de Botton -
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
-- Alan Arkin -
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
-- Alan Watts -
I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
-- Albert Camus -
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
-- Albert Camus -
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
-- Albert Einstein -
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
-- Albert Einstein -
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
-- Albert Ellis -
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
-- Albert Guinon -
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-- Alexander Smith -
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
-- Alfred Adler -
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
-- Ambrose -
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
-- Ambrose -
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
-- Amy Sedaris -
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
-- Anatole Broyard -
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
-- Anatole France -
I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
-- Ani DiFranco -
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
-- Anita Brookner -
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-- Anita Roddick -
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
-- Ann Landers -
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
-- Ann Landers -
One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
-- Ann Richards -
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
-- Anne Frank -
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
-- Anne Geddes -
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
-- Anne Lamott -
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
-- Anne Tyler -
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess -
It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
-- Anthony Storr -
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.
-- Ardant du Picq -
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
-- Art Buchwald -
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
-- Art Garfunkel -
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
-- Arundhati Roy -
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-- Ayn Rand -
We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.
-- B. J. Palmer -
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
-- Babe Ruth -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband...
-- Barbara De Angelis -
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
-- Barbara Olson -
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
-- Bell Hooks -
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
-- Bell Hooks -
My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.
-- Ben Harper -
There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
-- Ben Harper -
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
-- Ben Harper -
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
-- Ben Harper -
These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
-- Ben Harper -
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
-- Ben Stein -
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
-- Bertha von Suttner -
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
-- Bette Midler -
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
-- Beyonce Knowles -
In the whole of the universe there are only two: the lover and the beloved.
-- Bhai Sahib Singh -
The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.
-- Bill Cosby -
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
-- Bill Maher -
The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.
-- Bill W. Clayton -
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
-- Billy Graham -
every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
-- Billy Joel -
It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
-- Blair Underwood -
Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.
-- Bob Burg
