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Quotes About Relationships

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
~ Julie Burchill
For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
~ Avi Arad
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
~ Park Chan-wook
It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
~ Philip Massinger
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
~ Zadie Smith
I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.
~ Rivers Cuomo
I think children are really violent with each other often.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
~ Robert M. Gates
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.
~ Sloane Crosley
Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
I am very chill and comfortable in my own skin, and because of this, I believe it is exactly what is needed when you are with a strong woman. My wife is no shrinking violet in her own right. As a result, you have to know when to push, when to pull, when to let it go, and when to stand firm.
~ Jason Winston George
Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.
~ Ann Voskamp
I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.
~ Susan Glaspell
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
~ Amity Gaige
When you marry a triple Virgo, there's no way to meditate the stress away.
~ Jeremiah Brent
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
~ Larry Ellison
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
~ Henry Cloud
Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.
~ Henry Cloud
I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.
~ Richard Rogers
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.
~ Mike Fitzpatrick
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.
~ Raymond Arroyo
It can be easy to want to host everyone at once, but when it comes to virtual dinner parties - the smaller the group the better.
~ Laura Whitmore