Relationship Quotes
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.
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Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.
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I'm just a sensitive little soul who's put so much into her career that I haven't had enough energy or time left over to sustain a relationship.
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Save for a few people in my life, every close male relationship that I have, they're all warriors, whether they're SEALs, competitive martial artists, or professional mountain climbers. They have a certain code.
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My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.
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Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
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There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.
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Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
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There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. Ziggy Marley
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There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.
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Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.
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I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
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Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we’re basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.
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If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.
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The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.
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It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
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Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
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Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.
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The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.
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I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.
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A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.
