Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

In a relationship each person should support the other, they should lift each other up.

A relationship I think is like a shark you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I think in a way you're doomed once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music in article-writing in how I dress in how I live in my relationships in how I navigate paparazzi how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

There is a loving relationship between the Creator and the Creation.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving, it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Your basic guy is into a straight-ahead bottom-line kind of thought process that does not work nearly as well with the infinitely subtle complexities of human relationships as it does with calculating how much gravel is needed to cover a given driveway.

The more connections you and your lover make not just between your bodies but between your minds your hearts and your souls the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship and the more real moments you will experience together.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Where to start? ... This has been a long love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged, no harm can be done.

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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.

My greatest environments in which I can grow or grow up is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live together in the same world at peace.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it is really going to work the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

When you make a sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent interpersonal relationships.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

He loved her... she can be talking to me about regular things, but when she mentions Martin her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe and not what others believe.