1,310 quotes
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Sacha Guitry
Director · French · 1885 – 1957
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Tim Berners Lee
Inventor · English · b. 1955
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Lasse Hallstrom
Director · Swedish · b. 1946
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
Richard Branson
Businessman · British · b. 1950
As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
Gerhard Schroder
Statesman · German · b. 1944
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
Jeffery Deaver
Writer · American · b. 1950
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
William Scranton
Politician · American · b. 1917
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet · German · 1875 – 1926
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
Educator · American
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
Bill Condon
Director · American · b. 1955
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Timothy Radcliffe
Clergyman · English
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
Sociologist · German · 1858 – 1918
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Robert Fitzgerald
Author · American · 1910 – 1985
In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.
Ezra Cornell
Businessman · American · 1807 – 1874
Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
Fred Thompson
Politician · American · b. 1942
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
C. L. R. James
Journalist · 1901 – 1989
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda Meir
Leader · Israeli · 1898 – 1978
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan Quayle
Vice President · American · b. 1947
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James
Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer
Psychologist · American · b. 1940
We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.
Jay Roach
Director · American
At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
Janet Reno
Public Servant · American · b. 1938
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
Ella Maillart
Writer · Swiss · 1903 – 1997
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot
Writer · British · 1916 – 1995
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
David Bohm
Scientist · American · 1917 – 1992
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Brian Tracy
Author · American
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie
Lawyer · American · 1892 – 1944
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin
Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Politician · American · 1900 – 1965
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller
Author · American · b. 1927
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
Audre Lorde
Poet · American · b. 1934
Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
Vito Fossella
Politician · American · b. 1965
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Albert Ellis
Psychologist · American · 1913 – 2007
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
Louis Kronenberger
Critic · American · 1904 – 1980
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
Richard Linklater
Director · American · b. 1960
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol
Artist · American · 1927 – 1987
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
Leo Burnett
Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971
In a relationship you have to open yourself up.
Neil LaBute
Director · American · b. 1963
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
Malcolm Boyd
Clergyman · American · b. 1923
This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.
Warren Christopher
Statesman · American · 1925 – 2011
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
Richard Owen
Scientist · English · 1804 – 1892
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
Earl Browder
Activist · American · 1891 – 1973
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
Martha Gellhorn
Journalist · American · 1908 – 1998
I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.
Jean O'Leary
Activist · American · 1948 – 2005
One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding
Novelist · English · 1707 – 1754
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper
Politician · Canadian · b. 1959
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Peter L. Berger
Sociologist · Austrian · b. 1929
I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.
Ernest Istook
Politician · American · b. 1950