Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carl Reiner

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

Anthony Storr

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Kevin Connolly

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately.

Connie Chung

Why would you want her to say that she didn't have a relationship with you?

I was told they had a different kind of relationship -- platonic, but affectionate.

Robert Gottlieb

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

We don't see anything right now that shows that there's a relationship between sprawl and obesity.

Jennifer Grey

When you're in a relationship you really care about, you want to protect it and not talk about it.

We'll come down with a sledgehammer on any improper relationships, any improper conflicts.

Jay Leno

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Candice Accola

When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

Candace Bushnell

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.

Euripides

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Frank Murphy

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.

Chris Matthews

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Gretchen Mol

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

Greta Scacchi

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Gretchen Rubin

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

Gerhard Schroder

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

Graham Greene

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

Graham Greene

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Godfrey Reggio

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Harriet Lerner

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Halle Berry

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

Ian Somerhalder

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other,'

Hugh Walpole

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Hugh Prather

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.