Quotes About Partnership

chant: "We need a _____ floppy; We need a _____ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the

When we'd started working together, I'd assumed it would be a question of putting up with Pritkin; then suddenly the stupid hair was making me smile, and the sporadic heroics were making my heart jump and the constant bitching had me wanting to kiss him quiet.

THE MISSION OF YOUR MARRIAGE

Eve was a powerful partner for Adam, a strong and invaluable ally who fought the battles of life standing right beside him.

Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.

I'm his locomotive and he's my shield.

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong.

You're Mac, and I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters.

I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.

She knew what she wanted: the best. He knew what he was: the best. They enhanced each other's finest qualities, as true love will.

V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore. Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra...with interactive aids.

When you know who I am. Let me be your man.

Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons

Remember. It's called a soulmate. Not an egomate. Not a walletmate. Not a lustmate.

En kärlek med villkor är ju handel.

Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it.

finding someone who is similar in upbringing, general orientation, and values is the single most important component of a long and satisfying marriage.

What's the secret to a long, happy marriage?" was essentially, "I married my best friend." Similarly, from those whose marriages did not succeed, I often heard, "Well, we were good at love, but we never learned how to be friends.

The only way you can make a marriage work is to have both parties give 100 percent all the time." It began to make sense: you can't be calculating 50 percent in, 50 percent back. The attitude has to be one of giving freely. And if you start keeping score, you are already in trouble.

Based on their long experiences both in and out of love relationships, their first lesson is this: you are much more likely to have a satisfying marriage for a lifetime when you and your mate are fundamentally similar.

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion will be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.

What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more!

A strong man does not need a silent wife.