Relationship Quotes

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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

This time, there was no punishment from above. Sighing, Hamilton almost wished there had been; the capricious personality element infuriated him. There was just too little relationship between deed and punishment; the lightning was probably cutting down some totally innocent Cheyennite, on the far side of town.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship

I'm not unique. I'm only unusual in the media world — the London world. Babies are tough to look after, and I look back on those early years as a complete nightmare and think, how on earth did I do it? But as to why I did it without help: I couldn't bear the employer/servant relationship and dreaded having to share my privacy.

Margaret Forster

Let's suppose there are two kinds of geometry — we'll limit it, for the sake of the example. Our kind, Euclidean, and another, which we'll call x. X hasn't much relationship to Euclid. It's based on different theorems. Two and two needn't equal four in it; they could equal y2, or they might not even equal. A baby's mind is not yet conditioned, except by certain questionable factors of heredity and environment.

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Space and time are commonly regarded as the forms of existence of the real world, matter as its substance. A definite portion of matter occupies a definite part of space at a definite moment of time. It is in the composite idea of motion that these three fundamental conceptions enter into intimate relationship.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Louis Althusser

Still, she knew one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.

Nicholas Sparks

There is a direct relationship between the absence of celebrity and the presence of good-to-great results. Why? First, when you have a celebrity, the company turns into the one genius with 1,000 helpers. It creates a sense that the whole thing is really about the CEO. At a deeper level, we found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves.

James C. Collins

If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations—trust me, your expression is congratulations enough.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. Thank God we found each other. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. Forty-six years? Can't imagine life without him.

During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call relationship language? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.

There is something intrinsically upside down and counter-intuitive in the relationship between money and happiness.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

Michael Parenti

He took a long drink, then grimaced. I do not have a drinking problem, he announced, his voice needlessly loud. I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

Maybe you've invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

The domestic cat is a contradiction. No animal has developed such an intimate relationship with mankind, while at the same time demanding and getting such independence of movement and action.

I have firmly believed since Desert Shield that it is necessary for the strength of our democracy that the military and the press corps maintain a strong, mutually-respectful and enabling relationship. This continues to be problematic for our country, especially during times of war.

Ricardo Sanchez

Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.

William P. Young

The ruthless destruction of wild animals and the abuse of domestic animals is contrary to God's purpose. Our relationship with the animal world is not one of warfare, but one of dominion. Wild and domestic in terms of God's purpose. Finally we must say in terms of this text that man was created to live in a perfect world, in a good world, very good God commanded. To kill and to feed it, man was formed out of the substance of the dust of the ground we are told in Genesis 2:7. Man is therefore earthbound, psychological and physically, dust thou art and unto dust thou returnest.

Rousas John Rushdoony