Quotes About Relationships

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.

Part of loving someone is wanting the best for them, even if the best for them isn't being with you.

All of that Hollywood stuff! Like these women wanting men to pick them up and carry them across thresholds and some of them weigh more than you do. I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie and television addicted women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and dancing then getting mad when a poor, scraggly husband comes in tired and sweaty from working like a dog all day, looking for some food. ~Malcolm X

He didn't understand women so how could he possibly expect to understand their predecessors.

In work relationships it is important to recognize that business and personal issues are frequently tied together. "Smart companies know that the individual's ability to create relationships" is the engine that drives value.4 Trusting each other's motives is critical to success, both in the moment and over the long haul.

the I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

many bullies lack the self-awareness and insight to see how their power plays are destructive, not only to themselves but to others around them.

That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

Blood is thicker than water, as people say. (But then again so is ketchup.)

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

As He said to Peter in express words, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me;" so He says to them all in effect, though not in words,"If ye wash not each other, if ye refuse to serve one another in love, ye have again no part with me." This is a hard saying; for if it be difficult to believe in the humiliation of Christ, it is still more difficult to humble ourselves.

Love is never governed by Reason.

And while it never felt like love or community, it had almost felt like not being alone.

I loved him, in part, for what he might be someday, which is never a good way to love someone. It was in fact a way of rejecting him, a way of rejecting who he is now, and I think in some way we both knew this.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

In proportion as I discover the worthlessness of other pursuits, the value of my Eliza and of domestic happiness rises in my estimation.

Love is a sort of insanity.

That nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

Pride of friend or enemy did not need any words.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?