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I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
— Jason Isaacs
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
— John Logan
I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.
— Jesse L. Martin
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.
— Glenn Gould
I'm a real romantic.
— Vanity
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
— Leslie Caron
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
— Rachel Hunter
I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.
— Danielle Panabaker
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
— Beatrice Wood
I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
— Matthew Fox
The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.
— Michael Patrick King
The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
— Alfred Molina
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
— Eavan Boland
I don't want to adhere to any particular image. I have tried to bring in variety to my characters. But then, only a few actors have managed to earn this tag of a romantic hero. Many have aspired to get such a label. So I am not complaining.
— Nivin Pauly
I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.
— Nivin Pauly
All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
— Camila Cabello
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
— Renzo Piano
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
— John McGahern
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
— Laurence Housman
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
— Charles Saatchi
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
— Richard Thompson
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
— George Hamilton
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
— Rachel Joyce
Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.
— Ruth Glick
Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.
— Teresa Medeiros
I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
— Rain
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.
— Matt Berninger
A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
— Mamie Gummer
One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.
— Jason Segel
I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
— Gary Coleman
I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.
— Nimrat Kaur
Basically, I'm a romantic.
— Pia Zadora
I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
— Pia Zadora
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
— Michael Zaslow
I am a romantic, I admit it.
— Keith Jarrett
I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play.
— Natalie Zea
I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
— Max Muller
'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
— Luanne Rice
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
— David Millar
Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
— Meg Ryan
I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.
— Joe Lando
I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.
— Carrie-Anne Moss
I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.
— Justin Chon
I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.
— Luka Sulic
If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
— Florence Henderson
I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
— Gabriella Wilde
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
— Ophelia Lovibond
My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.
— Jennifer Beals
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
— Josephine de La Baume
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
— Neville Marriner
My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.
— Josephine de La Baume
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore. 
— Alexandra Cassavetes
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
— Kage Baker
I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.
— Chelsea Peretti
I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.
— Leelee Sobieski
My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
— John Edgar Wideman
There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.
— Rosario Dawson
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
— Lee Siegel
In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
— Lee Siegel
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!
— George Herman
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.
— Laurie Holden
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
— Lisa Gardner
I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
— Andre Dubus III
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
— Taiye Selasi
I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.
— Ken Marino
I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.
— Marco Beltrami
To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
— Taylor Kinney
I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.
— Tobias Jesso, Jr.
I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.
— Tobias Jesso, Jr.
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
— Pearl Cleage
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
— Pearl Cleage
I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
— Linda Fiorentino
I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.
— Libba Bray
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
— Elaine Sciolino
Jung Yong-hwa and I know so much about each other, I think it would be difficult for us to start a romantic relationship.
— Park Shin-hye
I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
— Matthew Modine
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
— Richard Paul Evans
Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
— La India
Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's romance, there's pain - you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.
— Giuseppe Zanotti
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
— Joe DiMaggio
I'm a romantic at heart.
— Tyler Farr
I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.
— Paul Horn
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
— Philippa Gregory
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
— John Dos Passos
Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.
— Matthew Lillard
But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
— Brian Lumley
Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.
— Stana Katic
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
— Jeanne Phillips
We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
— Emma McLaughlin
I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.
— Michelle Trachtenberg
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
— George William Curtis
My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
— Corey Hart
I love the romance in Kimberly Derting's 'The Body Finder.' 'Cold Kiss' by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching - and about so much more than just romantic love.
— Claudia Gray
I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.
— Joe Johnston
Words of love, are works of love.
— William R. Alger
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
— Julie Delpy
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
— Peter Wright
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
— Billy Strayhorn
Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day.
— Leigh Michaels
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
— Margaret Anderson
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
— Lillian Gordy Carter
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
— Melissa De Sousa
The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
— T. E. Hulme
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
— Janet Street-Porter
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
— Yeardley Smith
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
— Mary Archer
I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.
— Telly Savalas
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
— William Cartwright
How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours. 
— Wayne Dyer
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
— Victor Hugo
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
— B. R. Ambedkar
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
— Julia Roberts
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
— Walter Winchell
More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.
— Travis Bradberry
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
— Eckhart Tolle
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes. 
— Buddha
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
— Marianne Williamson
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
— Lauryn Hill
It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.
— Laurent Brancowitz
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.
— Christopher McCandless
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
— Federico Fellini
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet I like to be in their company. 
— Peter Zumthor
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside that's the real reason that the relationships continue. 
— James McAvoy
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
— H. L. Mencken
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.
— Michael Ian Black
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
— Marlene Dietrich
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
— Oscar Wilde
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
— Barbara De Angelis
Spirituality is not a formula it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives. 
— Mike Yaconelli
I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.
— Ryan Lochte
We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.
— Richard Hayne
A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.
— Drake
Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.
— Piet Mondrian
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
— Dale Evans
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. 
— Joyce Brothers
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.
— Josh Turner
Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.
— Bipasha Basu
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
— John Henrik Clarke
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
— Shawn Ashmore
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. 
— Chanakya
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. 
— Harold S. Geneen
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
— Christopher McCandless
My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong.
— Anita Sarkeesian
Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
— Howard Schultz
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
— Hermann Hesse
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
— Leo Buscaglia
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
— Toni Collette
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
— Brendan Behan
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
— W. H. Auden
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
— Taylor Swift
Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.
— Kelly Rowland
I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.
— Lisa Lutz
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
— Laurence J. Peter
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
— Leo Buscaglia
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
— Bob Dylan
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
— Ann Oakley
The relationship between a client must be 'we.'
— Billy Baldwin
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
We have had a rewarding relationship, the belly and I.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The heart is forever inexperienced.
— Henry David Thoreau
Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.
— Mike Yaconelli
On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.
— Kit Harington
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
— Ingrid Betancourt
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
— Homer
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
— Ralph Ellison
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
— Washington Irving
I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. 
— Megan Fox
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.
— DMX
The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.
— Monica Bellucci
I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
— Jewell Parker Rhodes
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
— Rick Derringer
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
— Graham Greene
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
— Martin Scorsese
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.
— Jeremy Sisto
People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
— Nina Dobrev
In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.
— Caroline Winberg
What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.
— Mike Pence
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
— Richard Owen
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
— David Ogilvy
But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.
— Elton John
Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
— Ashley Greene
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
— Eckhart Tolle
I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.
— Caroline Paul
Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.
— Marie Kondo
Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.
— Anderson Cooper
I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.
— Steve Harvey
I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
— Chandra Wilson
We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.
— Chung Mong-joon
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
— Rudolf Steiner
A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
— Yuna
A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.
— Arjun Kapoor
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
— Milton Glaser
Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
— Leona Lewis
Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.
— Elizabeth Gillies
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.
— Ronan Farrow
I love Neil Young. And he loves me! We have a great relationship.
— Donald Trump
I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.
— Spike Lee
I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
— Richard LaGravenese
For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
— Rafe Spall
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.
— Guy Finley
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
— Joyce Meyer
Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.
— August Wilson
From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
— Adam Grant
One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.
— Peyton Manning
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is not love where there is no will.
— Indira Gandhi
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
— Jack Nicholson
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
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
— Willa Cather
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
— Jennifer Aniston
People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.
— Toni Collette
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
— Jacques Lacan
For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.
— Peter Lindbergh
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
— Natalie Goldberg
When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
— Gary Zukav
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
— Deborah Tannen
Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
— Kate Middleton
In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.
— John Schneider
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
— James A. Baldwin
I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man I think that's natural - that's what we all want. 
— Lara Giddings
You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
— Keith Ellison
If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.
— Sarah Gadon
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
— Rollo May
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender. 
— Emil Ludwig
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
— David Hyde Pierce
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
— A. Philip Randolph
I have a very bad relationship with mice.
— Casey Affleck
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
— Georg Simmel
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
— Tom Hooper
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
— Bill Walton
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
— Wilbur Smith
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
— Tinie Tempah
After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.
— Ronnie Musgrove
The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.
— Owen Paterson
When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.
— Ian Dunbar
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
— Arthur Ganson
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
— Brene Brown
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
— Angela Ahrendts
I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
— Yoko Ono
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
— Bill Murray
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
— Chinua Achebe
I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.
— Alicia Keys
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
— Natasha Trethewey
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
— Stephen Hawking
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
— Henry Cloud
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
— Giorgio Agamben
I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.
— Alan Turing
I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.
— T. B. Joshua
One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.
— Anne Wojcicki
The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.
— Thomas Gibson
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.
— Edwin Lutyens
It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you.
— George Michael
The relationship between you and your boss will change over time. When you just started out, that boss was your mentor and took you under their wing. As a seasoned employee, though, you no longer need your boss to guide you along. You should be able to handle tasks on your own.
— John Rampton
To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem. Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is that it's very much a crime, and a very serious one.
— Marcia Clark