Quotes About Relationship

These social pressures took their toll on his marriage

Eliza increased her dependence on John, as if training him to be everything Bill wasn't.

One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.

but he tolerated Strong out of respect for his scholarship as well as because of growing ties between their two families.

spending months apart from his wife each year.

Sometimes Rockefeller gave Gates glimpses into his inner sadness.

From the outset, Pierpont's relationship with Jack differed from his own with Junius.

He'd felt incredibly lucky they'd found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn't mere good fortune but inevitability.

Pemberton felt again what he'd never known with another woman— a sense of being unshackled into some limitless possibility, limitless though at the same time somehow contained within the two of them.

Customers don't distinguish between you and the company you work for. To the customer's way of thinking, you are the company.

What could be more tiresome than a wife that bleats?

If she was not pretending, he concluded, then there must be a vulgar streak in her somewhere. Impossible that a man could really be in love with a girl if he could think about vulgar streaks in this way. If

I more than love you, I'm not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone I'm waiting for you to return so I can start living again.

I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years.

than the one between the United States and the United Kingdom. Not only did Margaret Thatcher and I become personal friends and share a similar philosophy about government; the alliance

Her companionship had saved his reason, and in her own uncomplicated way she had got him through the blackest times, comforting by simply accepting his limitations.

That is how it was with them. A closeness, a rapport that was almost entire, except for these small niggling uncertainties which, most of the time, she [Janey Ashcroft] was able to ignore, but sometimes, like tonight, grew like balloons to such size and importance that she wondered how she was going to be able to cope with them. ['Anniversary']

A year. They had known each other a year. They [Janey and David] had this closeness, this rapport. But the final certainty was missing, and it was this void that, because she loved him so much, she was learning to live with. ['Anniversary']

He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.

We merged our lonelinesses once again, in something less than love but sweeter than self. I didn't get home to West Los Angeles after all.

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

That one of the most impoverished communities in the Americas would refuse a billion dollars demonstrates the relevance and significance of the land to the Sioux, not as an economic resource but as a relationship between people and place, a profound feature of the resilience of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Some of us have come to see how utterly connected a man's relationship to his fellows is with his relationship to God. Everything