Relation Quotes

1. "Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other."
Author: Al Ritter

2. "In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/groundrelationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceivedexcept in relation to a background."
Author: Alan Wilson Watts

3. "I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself."
Author: Angela Carter

4. "Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them."
Author: Anthony Horowitz

5. "I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time."
Author: Anthony Weiner

6. "I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm."
Author: Bernard Hinault

7. "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
Author: Bertrand Russell

8. "The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)"
Author: Charles E. Moore

9. "With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie."
Author: Charles Grodin

10. "Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you."
Author: Cheryl Strayed

11. "Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too."
Author: David Levithan

12. "In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown."
Author: Derek Rydall

13. "The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."
Author: Emil Ludwig

14. "I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so."
Author: Fernando Alonso Díaz

15. "After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone."
Author: Francesca Annis

16. "Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering."
Author: Garcelle Beauvais

17. "But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens."
Author: Graeme Murphy

18. "There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate."
Author: Hans Eysenck

19. "Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
Author: Harry Mathews

20. "Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship is constant friction and death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stability, no permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion and overcoming it our problem."
Author: J. Krishnamurti

21. "Blay found himself envying the couple a little. Not about the familial estrangement, for sure. But God ... to be able to be seen with your mate in public, show your love for them, have your relationship respected by everyone else? Heterosexual couples took that for granted because they never knew anything different. Their unions were sanctioned by the glymera, even if the pairs were not in love, or were cheating on each other or were otherwise a fraud.Two males?Hah."
Author: J.R. Ward

22. "We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out-- when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it."
Author: James P. Carse

23. "...but she never wanted to be in a relationship ever again. Because relationships were the worst. So many obligations. So many compromises. So many arguments. Someone always got destroyed in the end. Sometimes everyone got destroyed in the end."
Author: Jami Attenberg

24. "I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one."
Author: Jarod Kintz

25. "We were a heap of living creatures, irritated, embarrassed at ourselves, we hadn't the slightest reason to be there, none of us, each one, confused, vaguely alarmed, felt in the way in relation to others. In the way: it was the only relationship I could establish between these, tress, these gates, these stones. . . ."
Author: Jean Paul Sartre

26. "A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general system of the language at the period in question."
Author: Jean Pierre Vernant

27. "Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies."
Author: Jesse Petersen

28. "We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves."
Author: Jo Ann Davis

29. "If you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax."
Author: Jodi Picoult

30. "We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform."
Author: Kenneth H. Cooper

31. "It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad."
Author: Kristin Davis

32. "Historically, my lack of success; had a direct correlation with me silencing my authenticity. Summon the strength to stand in your truth."
Author: LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

33. "In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships."
Author: Lee R. Raymond

34. "I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships."
Author: NeNe Leakes

35. "I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad."
Author: Patrick Somerville

36. "I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive."
Author: Paz De La Huerta

37. "My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful and that is capable of making the whole of your existence a joyful undertaking of giving yourselves as a gift to God and your brothers and sisters, in imitation of the One who vanquished hatred and death for ever through love (cf. Rev 5:13).Love is the only force capable of changing the heart of the human person and of all humanity, by making fruitful the relations between men and women, between rich and poor, between cultures and civilizations. (Message for the 22nd World Youth Day: Palm Sunday, 1 April 2007)"
Author: Pope Benedict XVI

38. "Ecumenical relations it is important not only to know each other better, but also to recognize what the Spirit has sown in the other as a gift for us."
Author: Pope Francis

39. "For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about."
Author: Rafe Spall

40. "I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity."
Author: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

41. "I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship."
Author: Randeep Hooda

42. "Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time."
Author: Raymond Arroyo

43. "Ever since Dimitri came back...no, scratch that. Ever since you became obsessed with changing him, you've been torn over me. No matter what's happened between us, you've never really given yourself over to our relationship. I wanted to believe what you told me. I thought you were ready...but you weren't."
Author: Richelle Mead

44. "I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues."
Author: Saad Hariri

45. "The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
Author: Stephen R. Covey

46. "Engagement, and its relationship to the accumulation and processing of information, is a little-studied phenomenon, representing as it does, individual skills rather than those that can be measured in a group of people. Currently, our understanding and measurement of human intellectual capacity is oriented toward group skills and toward activities that can be elicited on command, regardless of the state of engagement. Indeed, being able to engage one's focus on the questions of the examiner, rather than on one's own interest, is the primary measure of test-taking ability, and test-taking ability is the primary measure of intelligence. When we find that animals do not do well when compared to people in this way, we must not assume that we have really measured their intellect. Perhaps we have measured only our own limited ability to engage them."
Author: Sue Savage Rumbaugh

47. "The tearing of the clothes haunted me in the beginning. The infected tore flesh and the others tore clothes and the sound could swallow you up.Now I see the greenery and listen to the sounds of the forest, and know I am safe. The forest is my friend. It was a tense relationship in the beginning, but it has earned my trust over time."
Author: Tara Brown

48. "He was simply not a "hero", which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman."
Author: Thomas Mann

49. "Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed."
Author: Tom Turner

50. "I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values."
Author: Winthrop Rockefeller

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