Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Bossidy

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Laura Schlessinger

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Neil LaBute

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Shia LaBeouf

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

Shia LaBeouf

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

Shania Twain

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.

Taylor Swift

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's 'deep' or 'complicated.' But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem.

Taylor Swift

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

Taylor Swift

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

Joshua Harris

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

Leona Lewis

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Leonard Cohen

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

John Keats

You are always new to me.

John Keats

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

John D. MacDonald

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

Linda Ellerbee

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Leo Tolstoy

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Pema Chodron

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Peter Porter

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.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

Piper Perabo

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Julian Barnes

He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.

Kim Kardashian

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Kenzaburo Oe

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Ralph Ellison

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 Fiennes

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Leo Buscaglia

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

Lew Wasserman

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.

Lewis Carroll

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.