RELATIONSHIP QUOTES IV
quotations about relationships
We had ideas about relationships. We both agreed that each pair of people must have a mutually compatible system all their own within which they can communicate, or communication falls like the Tower of Babel. A man should be able to expect his wife to play the role of Wife--be she bitchy or dutiful--when she relates to him. For her lover she may have a completely different role, but at home, on the Husband-Wife set, she must stay within the confines of that part. Or we would all wander around never knowing our friends from our strangers.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
We will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating groups, because these are the talents that build strong relationships.
MARGARET WHEATLEY
Leadership and the New Science
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Awaken the Giant Within
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means -- hell, it's complicated.
JOHN STEINBECK
The Winter of Our Discontent
One must preserve some mystery in one's relationship.... A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
I guess U know me well, I don't like winter
But I seem 2 get a kick out of doing U cold
Oh, what the hell, U always surrender
What's this strange relationship that we hold on 2?
Baby I just can't stand 2 see U happy
More than that I hate 2 see U sad
Honey if U left me I just might do something rash
What's this strange relationship? (ship, ship, ship)
PRINCE
"Strange Relationship"
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
People meet; that is well. They part; that is well, too. Life is life.
OCTAVE MIRBEAU
The Diary of a Chambermaid
I do think on some basic level we are animals and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But, as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
London Telegraph, December 10, 2006
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
The Contemporary Bauman
A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
WOODY ALLEN
Annie Hall