Quotes About Partnership

I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be.

Along the timeline of history, God has used people with purpose as partners in His Big Plan. As a result of being made in His likeness,2 we have a gnawing need to matter. It's a sense of purpose that comes from being one of His created works of art. He meant these purposes to be developed and realized.

sort of worked, our arrangement. Before I couldna seen the sense in it. But two of us getting meat and wood, two of us keeping a look out, it was more efficient that one bloke faffing about on his own. And it wasn't we had anything in common exactly but we was another human to talk to.

She moved closer to him and took his hand. But that's just profit and loss games again. The simple, bottom-line fact is that this is the right path for us. Like that Qom Jha proverb Builder With Vines quoted at us in the caverns, the one about many vines woven together being stronger than the same number used separately. We compliment each other perfectly, Luke, all the way down the line. In many ways, we're two halves of a single being.

The truth was that when you got married you had to give up one thing after another. It never ended. You had to give up your life—the special one that you were meant to have—and lead some middle kind of life that went where neither of you had ever thought of going, or wanted to go. And you never knew what was happening. You gave up your life and didn't even know it.

You've got to dance with the one that brought you.

supported by Dr. Paul Bellow—Temple University, Philadelphia

My grandmother, he said, confessed to me once that before she'd ever let herself become deeply involved with a man, she'd make sure to get him drunk. Maestra claims you can never know who a person really is unless you've seen how they behave when under the spell of Bacchus. It's a hard and fast rule with no exceptions: a bad drunk will make a bad husband. Or wife, for that matter. Sobriety for some people, is a thin and temporary disguise.

It's not about choosing somebody over her. It's about making space for somebody along with her.

A kingdom marriage is defined as "a covenantal union between a man and a woman who commit themselves to function in unison under divine authority in order to replicate God's image and expand His rule in the world through both their individual and joint callings.

Men are often reluctant to give up their wants and their agendas, when necessary, for their wives.

God doesn't need you to be your husband's critic, his conscience, or his mother. Neither does he need you to sit down, fold your arms, and say, "Okay, that's it. I'm not going to do what I'm supposed to do until my husband starts doing what he's supposed to do.

You may say, "I'd compliment him if he did something right." Well, he did at least one thing right. He married you!

Of all of the places on the planet, your marriage should be that one place where you are encouraged, reminded of your strengths, and given the motivation you need to live out those strengths well.

Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.

Husbands should not be in the marriage first and foremost to get their needs met, but rather they should first look out for the interests and needs of their wives. A husband's love should be characterized by sacrifice for the good of his wife.

Dee understood now that real couples didn't have to ask each other to go together: they already were together.

Perhaps the death knell of love is not anger or even indifference; it's losing the desire to know more about your partner.

Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.

Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He could be out of his bed, supplying nutriment, water, or a story, before his wife turned over in her sleep. He attributed his long and happy marriage to the fact that unlike most mothers, his wife got to sleep through the night when he was at home.

The rooming house in Carlton where they both lived presently lodged three cats and two dogs which had all been found in extremis and nursed back to aggressive, barking, scratching health by his partner.

Bereit für das nächste Abenteuer, Prinzessin?" "Bereit, wenn du es bist", sagte sie leise.