Quotes About Relationship

If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. —Augustine

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

We talk for maybe ten minutes, perfunctory talk in a way that we're never really perfunctory, all skirting the question of us, and I begin to wonder if she had caller ID whether she'd picked up at all.

Indiana and Illinois, the two states conjoined like Siamese twins.

In the months to come, we'll buy a house together and get married and have a son--all of it occurring so naturally that we won't even think of ourselves as having given up our freedom, but rather as having more of it.

Eu as prefera sa beau vin facut de omul care mi-l serveste, fiindca beau persoana insasi. Ma impregnez de fiinta ei, de iubirea ei.

It is important that sons and daughters be able to trust their parents with personal, intimate knowledge.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

Men want to be right. Let them, I say. It drives him crazy when I won't take the other end of the rope. "Okay, you're right" are three devastating words.

Getting to know patients is what I do. I learn about their deepest fears and secrets. A professional relationship becomes a personal one. It can be no other way. (190)

But it's not hell," Pete spoke with amazing confidence. "Not if you love him.

As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?' Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.

Gracias. —¿Por qué? —Por regalarme un día más. —No lo hice por ti —reconoció con una sonrisa—, lo hice por motivos puramente egoístas. —El Alquimista arqueó las cejas a modo de pregunta silenciosa—. Lo hice por mí. No estaba dispuesta a vivir un día sin ti.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'