Quotes About Relationships

While Hamilton endeared himself to Washington in this first election, he also antagonized John Adams, a man with an encyclopedic memory for slights.

and no real warmth existed between the two

Before Rockefeller's hair fell out, people noted the contrast between him and his often sickly wife.

While Rockefeller and Gates were irked by the Merritts' ingratitude, they were not entirely blameless.

About to enter into his second marriage, Bill must have been drastically scaling back on first-family expenditures, albeit without disclosing the reason for the sudden urgency.

but he is kept in check by the Drexels.

He is very well and jolly by bits but sometimes I see he feels as lonely as I do

For the rest of her life, Eliza rotated among the homes of her five children, who provided her with more security than she had ever known with her prodigal husband.

Yet they never seemed to get along.

Yet Big Bill never entirely lost touch with his Rockefeller family.

a way of building tension and softening up the parties.

Bill had relatively little contact with his rich sons, John and William, but was extremely close to the envious Frank, who shared his love of fishing and hunting.

As time passed, the strains between Gates and Harper grew intolerable.

One is left to wonder whether Bill saw in Johnston a substitute son who might fill the large emotional void left by his formerly adoring eldest son.

Amid the hectic rounds of his life, Rockefeller always found time to send letters and small, thoughtful gifts to Packard and Giles to buck up their morale.

paederasty is somehow no qualification of

Friends are like books. You carry them with you forever, regardless of mundane impediments like geography.

That's just how it is, you know, she said. Women always choose men over other women.

Adult friendship doesn't grant you an exclusive, isn't meant to be ranked above romance and family.

The most unbearable type of anger is a woman's—do anything to avoid it.

A veces nuestros amigos se convierten en nuestros enemigos, y a veces nuestros enemigos se convierten en nuestros amigos.

think they all hooked up in the bar, over aperitifs. Certainly

Great Dane the size of a pony, and a girl with a rat terrier the size of the Great Dane's head. Overall I preferred the rat terrier. Small dog, big personality. The little guy thought he was boss of the world.

The house makes me feel bad," he said. "You make me feel good. I only know how I feel.