1,310 quotes
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Educator · American · 1890 – 1976
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
Pierre Pettigrew
My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.
Steven Jesse Bernstein
Writer · American · 1950 – 1991
Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.
Michael Wilbon
Journalist · American · b. 1958
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.
Joe Klein
Journalist · American · b. 1946
I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.
Viktor Yanukovych
Statesman · Ukrainian · b. 1950
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
John Corigliano
Composer · American · b. 1938
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
Pepper Schwartz
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
Rudolf Hiferding
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
Casey Kasum
I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.
Mickey Cohen
Criminal · American · 1913 – 1976
If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.
Benny Anderson
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
Eknath Easwaran
Author · Indian
Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
James Garner
Activist · American · b. 1928
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
Ronald Steel
There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
Andrew Oliver
Politician · American
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
Milton Avery
Artist · American · 1885 – 1965
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
Aaliyah
Musician · American · 1979 – 2001
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Tim Robbins
Actor · b. 1958
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
Richard Gere
Actor · American · b. 1949
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
Danny Glover
Actor · American · b. 1947
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
Gabriela Sabatini
Athlete · Argentinian · b. 1970
Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
Pam Grier
Actress · American · b. 1949
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
Jeff Foxworthy
Comedian · American · b. 1958
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood
Actress · American · 1938 – 1981
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
James Franco
Actor · American · b. 1978
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
Jules Shear
Musician · American · b. 1952
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
David Byrne
Musician · Scottish · b. 1952
We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.
Mary Hart
Entertainer · American · b. 1950
I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.
Treat Williams
Actor · American · b. 1951
There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
Francesca Annis
Actress · English · b. 1944
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
Rick Pitino
Athlete · American · b. 1952
It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.
Jon Voight
Actor · American · b. 1938
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
Thomas Keller
Celebrity · American · b. 1955
As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.
Adam Rich
Actor · American · b. 1968
I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.
Gretchen Mol
Actress · American · b. 1972
And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
Merle Haggard
Musician · American · b. 1937
Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.
Hugh Grant
Actor · English · b. 1960
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
Benmont Tench
Musician · American · b. 1953
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
James Taylor
Musician · b. 1948
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
James Levine
Musician · American · b. 1943
We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.
David Rose
Musician · American · 1910 – 1990
I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
Ron Silver
Actor · American · 1946 – 2009
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
Charlize Theron
Actress · South African · b. 1975
No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
Ewan McGregor
Actor · Scottish · b. 1971
We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.
Izabella Scorupco
Actress · Polish · b. 1970