Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

relationships

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

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 quotes from Norman McLaren

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

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 quotes from Pietro Aretino

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

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 views 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 more wisdom & wit from May Sarton

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 more views from Igor Stravinsky

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

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. 3 other sayings 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

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

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 more sayings from Dave Barry

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 more sayings from Hermann Hesse

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 quotes from Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

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

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 sayings from Robert Fitzgerald

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. 29 other views from Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

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

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 views from Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. 7 quotes from Homer

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 thoughts from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain. 2 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 sayings from Jessica Savitch

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. 18 views 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 wisdom & wit from Georg Simmel