Quotes About Relationship

What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

What intrigued me about him was his intelligence, his humor. I'd been all over the world. I had started a career. At that point, I had sort of committed myself to not committing. I didn't want to have to raise a husband, but he was so sophisticated and so funny.

I started reading the Carlos Baker biography of Dad but couldn't finish it. I had the impression I was reading about a guy who, well, just wouldn't be very nice to be around. I wish Baker could have known Dad because exactly the opposite was true.

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

There is no question that food is a conversation starter.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.

When you're a startup, your edge is that you don't have that many customers. So you can build a really strong relationship with them.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

I have been begging our show runners to let us meet Dina's dad since Season 1 when we learned that he abandoned her at a gas station when she was a kid.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

People told me it was a mistake to marry so young but you can't go into a marriage thinking that because the divorce statistics are so high your marriage won't last. You have to work at it day by day. Though certainly marriage isn't a final, heavy commitment, like signing your life away. It's the type of thing you can always get out of.

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Of course, we recognize that Egypt has gone through a dramatic change in government. And what their status will be going forward in terms of the relationship with our nation is something which which I'm sure will be developing over time.

Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change.

I don't believe that a piece of paper can decide your relationship status.