Quotes About Relationships

LOLA Oh, no. She's probably going out with Turk tonight. DOC    She's too nice a girl to be going out with a guy like Turk. LOLA I don't know why, Daddy. Turk's nice.

MARIE    (Not sounding exactly cheerful) Mrs. Delaney, I'm expecting a telegram this morning. Would you leave it on my dresser for me when it comes? LOLA Sure, honey. No bad news, I hope. MARIE Oh, no! It's from Bruce. LOLA    (MARIE'S boy friends are one of her liveliest interests) Oh, your boy friend in Cincinnati. Is he coming to see you?

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of mere inertia.

Love comes in so many forms, and pain is no different.

demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

I never had a biological sister, yet the more closely I work with women in the Church, the more surely I know there is a spiritual sisterhood.

I have a rule: I prefer anyone who doesn't try to kill me to anyone who does. I'm funny that way.

I was bad at money but had amassed some. I couldn't claim that marriage was my real skill, but I was better at it than many. I'd had two previous husbands and a wife. I'd lost them to changes of predilection, without rancour—as I say, I wasn't bad at marriage. Scile was my fourth spouse.

The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.

If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk; If you want to be happy for three days, get married; If you want to be happy forever, make a garden.

When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Zarife de kendine göre Yedigey'in iyili?ini istemi? ve bu konuda vicdan?n?n sesine uymu?tu. Bunun için Zarife'yi suçlam?yor, ona k?zam?yordu. Zaten insan sevdi?ine k?zamazd? ki! Daha çok kendisini suçluyor, kendisini kusurlu buluyordu. Sevdi?i kad?n ac? çekece?ine kendisi ac? çeksindi. B?rak?p gitse bile onu hep sevgiyle anard?.

Gerçek mutluluk, yava? yava?, azar azar gelir ve bu bizim hayata bak?? aç?m?zla, çevremizle, çevremizdekilere kar?? davran???m?zla do?rudan do?ruya ilgili ve orant?l?d?r. Mutluluk, birbirini tamamlayan ufak tefek ?eylerin birikmesinden do?uyor.

Living with a couple of Scots hasn't been easy, you know. Graham and Angus have made me realize that the old saw is true—it's necessary to either kill a Scot or agree with him, you have no other choice.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

If I hold her hand she says, 'Don't touch!' If I hold her foot she says 'Don't touch!' But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

Responsiveness encompasses three things: Understanding: My partner knows how I see myself and what is important to me. Validation: My partner respects who I am and what I want. Caring: My partner takes active and supportive steps in helping me meet

Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. Statistics will, and should, almost always be used to illustrate a relationship. It's more important for people to remember the relationship than the number.

A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?

When responsiveness is coupled with openness, though, intimacy can develop quickly.

acting with responsiveness to others can create tighter bonds:

CONNECTION: Defining moments are social:

Divorce Busting, by Michele Weiner-Davis [Relationships]. Anyone in a relationship can benefit from this book by a practitioner of solutions-focused therapy.