People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Then when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative or creative in their own way what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I think I meant that given the circumstances of my childhood I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person because it was more romantic. You know I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Yeah. Sheryl and I are very happy. To me when you have a relationship you're happy and in love children are a natural part of the equation

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family but once the sisters are grown it becomes the strongest relationship.

Trauma happens in relationships so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age I did that. But I'm past that age.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate healthy and loving relationship.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Outside books we avoid colorful characters.

There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

Culture what you believe what you value how you live matters. Now as fundamental as these principles are they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening but this wasn't it.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever by the way.

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

Ultimately who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn Joseph Campbell

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ which we believe sets us right with God the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

When I got my first television set I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship and I thought that was the most important thing.

It seems essential in relationships and all tasks that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

When people hold you in high esteem it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

It is the whole environment that is created in the doctor-patient relationship in that it is not really permissive on either side ... Neither side is encouraging the other to talk about it.

It is love that shines brilliantly in every individual. But man not being able to comprehend the significance of love attributes physical relationship to it. The love of a mother towards her child is affection.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

If one could be friendly with women what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees, they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So too is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

In a relationship each person should support the other, they should lift each other up.

A relationship I think is like a shark you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I think in a way you're doomed once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music in article-writing in how I dress in how I live in my relationships in how I navigate paparazzi how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

There is a loving relationship between the Creator and the Creation.

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 relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving, it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Your basic guy is into a straight-ahead bottom-line kind of thought process that does not work nearly as well with the infinitely subtle complexities of human relationships as it does with calculating how much gravel is needed to cover a given driveway.

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.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Where to start? ... This has been a long love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.

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.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged, no harm can be done.

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

My greatest environments in which I can grow or grow up is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live together in the same world at peace.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it is really going to work the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

When you make a sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

He loved her... she can be talking to me about regular things, but when she mentions Martin her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident.

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.