Quotes About Partnership

Many relationships are give & take but the most successful ones are give & give.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

Detective Virgil and Barlow [bomb-technician] arranged to meet at the Starbucks. Virgil got a grande hot chocolate, no-fat milk, no foam, no whipped cream, and Barlow got a venti latte with an extra shot. As they took a corner table, Virgil said, "Remind me not to stand next to you if you're handling a bomb. That much caffeine, you gotta be shakin' like a hundred-dollar belly dancer." "At least I'm not drinking like a little girl," Barlow said.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.

Richmond H. Shreve, William F. Lamb, and Arthur Loomis Harmon, who teamed up to design the Empire State Building

Shreve and Lamb both joined the firm of Carrère & Hastings.

With his partner gone, Hastings lost his momentum. In 1920, he retired as an active member of the firm.1 The beneficiaries were Shreve and Lamb.

Their working arrangement was the ideal professional relationship, one with the qualities of yin and yang. Shreve's proclivities were organizational—his was the genius that solved the operational and administrative problems that had the Empire State Building completed in one year. Lamb's proclivities rested more naturally in the design field. Each assumed responsibility in his chosen field, but neither abdicated responsibility in the other.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

I don't think you're entirely understanding how this boyfriend thing works, Ben. Denying me in the shower, it's very hurtful." "You do realize I can actually hear the air quotes when you say boyfriend.

Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling

Marriage is a great institution.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

For capitalism to work, we all need one another.

We make a sensational team.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

The bride who wants to do her full job will plan from the start to create the kind of home her husband wants, and to do it with no more assistance than he willingly offers. —"Making Marriage Work," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1950