Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

relationship

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

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

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

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

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

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

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.