Quotes About Relationship

That his father honored his wish to leave Standard Oil only deepened the bond between them.

But Perkins had left the bank on bad terms

He tried almost from the beginning of our partnership to dominate and override me," he said of Clark.

McGregor won Rockefeller's absolute trust on all technical matters.

John had always confided in her about business and in 1893 was still sending her detailed reports about Mesabi ore.

Husband and wife had little in common

Jack wrote his mother how things couldn't proceed in New York in Pierpont's absence.

I'm doing this in love.

I know he has much enjoyed our being in the house

Archbold became Rockefeller's proxy, picked successor, surrogate son, and court jester.

his great confidence and trust in me bridged all the difference in age, wealth, and position.

Jack often seemed embarrassed by his remoteness from Pierpont.

Hubble's law: There is a linear relationship between recessional velocity and galaxy distance. Namely, galaxies that are ever more distant are moving away from us with faster velocities!

prize to be won by loving the world may seem desirable. But love for the world guarantees an empty, meaningless life, isolated from intimate relationship with God and void of the fulfillment that living in His will provides.

Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain.

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.

There was nothing she had neglected to tell him, nothing he had neglected to tell her. People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

Then she said Peter McCann had lived in her building for a good many years, and they had grown close, in a gruff and occasional and good-fences kind of a way.

People liked him," Froelich said. "He was OK, I guess." "Is that all?" "That's a compliment, one brother to another.

He was still talking, audible now, the same flat tones from the telephone, scolding, belittling, humiliating, his head jerking above the vast wattle of his neck.

the phone and the

If I visit and he doesn't know I've visited, have I really visited at all? It's self-indulgent to come here just to make myself feel like a good wife.

Tell me about the aunt." "She married up. A doctor. She has a beautiful daughter. But she still loves her nephew. And seems to understand him.

A child uncertain of its birth date is a classic symptom of dysfunction within a family.