Quotes About Relationships

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

I think the Conservative Party has a great story to tell when it comes to relationships with First Nations. I want to be part of the solution-identifying process, talking about, 'What are the practical things that we can achieve that the Conservatives can offer?'

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

The one woman Trump does seem to totally respect is his daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka, on whom he heaps constant, effusive, at-times borderline creepy praise and physical affection.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

I have my family. I've got the love of my wife, my daughters and friends, people who like me, think about me and send me prayers and positive energy.

Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

I believe that friendship is life's most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?'