918 private quotes tagged relationship

“I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.” — Bob Dylan

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“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides

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“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.” — Lauryn Hill

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“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” — W. H. Auden

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“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.” — Ho Chi Minh

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“I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.” — Timothy Radcliffe

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“I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.” — Harrison Ford

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“When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.” — Ramakrishna

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“Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.” — Ralph Ellison

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“Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.” — Mark Steyn

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“I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.” — Leighton Meester

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“The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.” — Quentin Crisp

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“There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.” — Ziggy Marley

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“We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.” — Mike Ditka

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“In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.” — Milton Glaser

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“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?” — Virginia Woolf

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“When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.” — Henry Rollins

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“It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.” — Novak Djokovic

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“Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.” — Ang Lee

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“I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.” — Randy Harrison

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“Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.” — Paris Hilton

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“It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.” — Justin Timberlake

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