Relationship Quotations | Page 2

NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

We realized that Elite has the potential to really add value to a company like La Perla, due to its relationship to the fashion business, links to music, to entertainment, all of this tends to point more and more to the luxury consumer. The fashion world is one where Italy has clear excellence. I see the potential with it very clearly.

The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

People change and forget to tell each other.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband...

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Men have been intimidated by my relationship with Howard. You know, it's hard for them to imagine that they could be number one, seeing this relationship.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.