Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

relationship

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. 9 other quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke

God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends. 3 more sayings from Addison Mizner

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. 5 quotes from Gianni Versace

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. 3 quotes from Louis Kronenberger

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. 7 more quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain. 2 more quotes from Wendell Willkie

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. 9 more views from Alfred Adler

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best. 14 more wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. 18 other quotes from Joseph Campbell

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. 3 quotes from Georg Simmel

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. 2 other views from Norman McLaren

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. 20 more quotes from Herbert Spencer

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. 4 more thoughts from Dean Acheson

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. 6 sayings from B. R. Ambedkar

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. 2 other views from Pietro Aretino

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. 24 other wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. 3 views from May Sarton

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. 53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. 5 thoughts from Igor Stravinsky

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. 18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. 3 other quotes from Luigi Pirandello

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. 6 thoughts from Jerzy Kosinski

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. 10 quotes from Hermann Hesse

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. 9 thoughts from Iris Murdoch

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship. 27 other quotes from Dave Barry

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. 2 wisdom & wit from Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. 3 quotes from James Baldwin

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. 18 thoughts from Andy Warhol

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. 60 views from H. L. Mencken

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. 29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. 11 wisdom & wit from Graham Greene

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. 2 quotes from Robert Fitzgerald

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. 3 quotes from Cyril Cusack