H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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• Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Me
  • Matter

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Matter
  • Follow

• 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
  • Important
  • Country
  • Relationship

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • You
  • Matter

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Matter

• When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Good
  • You
  • Matter

• When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Long
  • Relationship

• The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Relationship
  • Company

• The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

  

  Plato
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Existence

• They had always been there, just hidden, sometimes, sadly, self-hating, but always there. The women, the church within the church, like Mary in the Sacristy, with their own secret rites. The thread wound back through a labyrinth, through thousands of years, into a ball, round and bright as the full moon.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Church
  • Moon
  • Secret

• No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Relationship
  • Matter
  • Misery