Quotes About Relationships

He suddenly found that the thing he had set out to prove had proved something quite different. Human nature had outmaneuvered him. For if she would not desert a friend, neither could he. •

The French have a saying – is it the French? I don't know, I believe so – there is a saying that you do not put a boiling kettle upon the fire. You put cold water in the kettle and allow it to warm. So with marriage.

Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be named as sensuous or emotional as such, perhaps derived from each and gave to each but in essence grew out of a deeper fund of temperament that he still could not altogether apprehend. The simple miner's daughter was not simple in character at all.

Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.

He said in exasperation, "Goddamn it, you should know I'm not used to dealing with women! You search the earth to find some special secret feminine grievance to gnaw over for months on end and then produce it coolly on the mat to explain all the irrational hedging and dodging of an entire winter—

I thought, the way to love is through suffering. Who had said that? Did it mean anything or was it just the usual talk?

I'm -- earthy. I don't look at a figure on a cross, I look at the things round me. Those are what I love; my husband, my child, my dog, my garden, my spinet, my bedroom, my home. Earthy. You see. But I have love overflowing for all those. Those are more important to me than a Man sitting on a throne in Heaven. I hope if I explain it to Him when I see Him, He'll come round to see it my way . . .

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

All the adult family was present except Beth, Paul's wife, who was sharing Keren's lonely vigil in the cottage over the hill. Despised by Keren in life, Beth could yet not bear the thought of allowing her to lie untended all through the summer evening.

So much had happened in their relationship since the angry scene of last August that they met like strangers, remembering the old emotions but no longer feeling them.

Andrew aveva preso dimora nel suo cuore o si era preso una parte del suo cuore, e niente sarebbe stato più come prima.

Lui fece girare il frustino ancora e ancora tra le dita. «Sai che non ti odio. Buon Dio, dovresti sapere che...»

A Nampara, nonostante tutti i vincoli che doveva rispettare, era libera; e lavorava insieme a persone cui si era affezionata e per un uomo che adorava.

You treat everybody like they are your friend. It ain't that way in the world, Forrest. A lot of people ain't your friend. They are just lookin at you the way a banker looks at somebody comes in for a loan—How I'm gonna fleece this rube? That's the way it is, Forrest. That's the way it is.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

the sharpest political differences are sometimes found not incompatible with personal friendship.

Mr. Martin and Mr. Rowan

ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.

In working with Allies it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own.

Niech ludzie nie znaj?cy mi?o?ci szcz??liwej twierdz?, ?e nigdzie nie ma mi?o?ci szcz??liwej. Z t? wiar? l?ej im b?dzie i ?y?, i umiera?.

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He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.