c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
— Marianne Williamson
None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
— Randeep Hooda
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
— Edward T. Hall
We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
— Mike Curb
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
— Roy Lichtenstein
Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
— Anderson Cooper
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in. 
— Amin Maalouf
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
— Shiv Khera
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid each cycle of the wave is valid each cycle of a relationship is valid. 
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'
— Marilyn Manson
People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn't discuss in public because it's a real relationship. It's not a relationship for the public, you know?
— Common
Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.
— Moran Atias
The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn't work, you can't force those things.
— Kate Hudson
I'm not the kind of person to jump into a relationship with a guy. I do a lot of figuring out about the person and his background, what he wants, and why he is interested in me.
— Sofia Richie
When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.
— Jessica Parker Kennedy
What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.
— Mitt Romney
'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
— Taylor Swift
I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.
— Donald Glover
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them. 
— June Singer
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
— Max Lucado
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
— Tina Weymouth
I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.
— Marie Lu
The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.
— Trevor Noah
I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
— Adam Levine
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.
— Joyce Meyer
I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
— Cameron Mathison
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
— Kangana Ranaut
The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.
— Alysia Reiner
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
— Honore de Balzac
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
— Ellen Goodman
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
— William Shakespeare
Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
— Garcelle Beauvais
The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.
— Sam Underwood
Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.
— Laura Wasser
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
— Mark Cuban
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
— Angela Davis
Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're not being honest, having fun together, and respecting one another. Why would you stay in a relationship otherwise?
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.
— Gordon Neufeld
For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.
— Wesley Clark
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
— Uma Thurman
People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile it puts a lot of stress on a relationship. 
— Margot Robbie
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
— Wayne Dyer
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
— Dan Quayle
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
— John Mayer
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
— Christopher Hitchens
A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
— Mario Andretti
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
— Agnes Repplier
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
— Greta Scacchi
In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up. 
— Taylor Swift
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
— Amy Grant
I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
— Leonard Slatkin
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
— Ram Dass
I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.
— Chelsea Peretti
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.
— Drew Gilpin Faust
'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.
— Jillian Rose Banks
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
— Joyce Carol Oates
My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.
— Stephen Curry
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
— John Rampton
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
— Anne Rice
It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
— Anthony Storr
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
— Richard Schickel
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
— Mortimer Adler
I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.
— Pink
In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.
— Joyce Meyer
I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.
— Beth Moore
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
— Billy Graham
Small unit autonomy, breaking the right rules, cultural influence, and relationship building has always been the heart Special Operations. Something must be done to ensure these are not lost to the big machine of SOCOM.
— Brandon Webb
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
— Amy Sedaris
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
— Andy Goldsworthy
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
— Keith Miller
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
— Shawn Ashmore
I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
— Jenny McCarthy
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
— Tony Kushner
I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
— Michael Ealy
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.
— Kevin McCloud
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
— Marina Abramovic
Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
— Garcelle Beauvais
That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.
— Joe Torre
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.
— Jamie Cullum
I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.
— Mike Bidlo
I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.
— Big Sean
Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
— Langston Hughes
I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
— Gabriella Wilde
Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.
— Lionel Messi
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
— Ramakrishna
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
— Iris Murdoch
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
— Megan Fox
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film. 
— Chris Weitz
There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
— Randeep Hooda
We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
— Lynn Coady
I think the first outfit that really kick-started my relationship with Chanel means a lot to me: it was a black, sort of Studio 54-inspired jumpsuit with gold stars all over it, and I wore that, and that's how my relationship with Chanel began, so, you know, it has sentimental value.
— Poppy Delevingne
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
— Joyce Brothers
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
— May Sarton
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
— Maya Angelou
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
— Marianne Faithfull
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
— Ron Chernow
When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.
— Lea Michele
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
— Peter Porter
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
— David Duchovny
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
— Poppy Z. Brite
It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
— Blair Underwood
I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.
— Moon Unit Zappa
So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
— Talib Kweli
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
— Scott Stapp
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
— Adrienne Rich
This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.
— Robert Pattinson
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'
— Gotye
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
— Dee Dee Myers
While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
— Cynthia Nixon
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
— Henry Louis Gates
I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.
— Bruce Willis
I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
— Jennifer Aniston
If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.
— Jeff Bridges
I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.
— Demi Moore
The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
— John Podhoretz
Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.
— Dominic Cooper
Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.
— Paul Henderson
I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.
— Max Greenfield
You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
— Victoria Justice
I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
— Agyness Deyn
My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.
— Laurene Powell Jobs
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
— Khaled Hosseini
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.
— Rebecca Solnit
Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
— Olga Kurylenko
Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.
— Douglas Conant
What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
— Neil Patrick Harris
People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.
— Andy Dick
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.
— John Oliver
I'm genuine and I'm available. I want people to be at their best. I want them to love and be loved to their fullest ability. My friends call me their relationship nanny, so we have a good time working through problems. Now, I don't claim to be an expert, but I am a woman who has been through everything.
— Niecy Nash
In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.
— Joe Swanberg
I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
— Olivia Wilde
I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
— Taylor Swift
Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
— Richard Foster
I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?
— Si Robertson
I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.
— Chris Rock
You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.
— Brian Eno
Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.
— French Montana
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
— Natalia Kills
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
— James E. Faust
No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.
— Sonam Kapoor
I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.
— Anushka Sharma
It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.
— Bella Thorne
I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.
— Carice van Houten
If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.
— Megan Fox
Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.
— Nydia Velazquez
The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.
— Nick Vujicic
You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
— Jack Canfield
I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
— Barton Gellman
I think the best way to keep a relationship hot is to simply try to make time for each other. That's it.
— Ashley Madekwe
My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
— Natalie Zea
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
— Morris Gleitzman
The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
— Wang Leehom
I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.
— Sarah Baker
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
— Bonnie Bassler
The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.
— Kevin Spacey
I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.
— Ella Henderson
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
— Teresa Medeiros
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
— Barbara Lynn
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.
— Richard Preston
The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
— Hans Adolf Krebs
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.
— Tom Brokaw
I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.
— Donald Trump
Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.
— Letitia Baldrige
It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
— Patricia Riggen
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
— Robert Kennedy
I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.
— Don McCullin
The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.
— Shakira
Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.
— Dominic Sherwood
I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.
— Prince
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to rekindle the relationship. It was too late. His ex-wife had found someone else. Good for her.
— Alicia Villarreal
In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.
— Solange Knowles
The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.
— Helmut Schmidt
In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.
— Alicia Vikander
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
— Rudolf Steiner
Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.
— Michael Hayden
Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.
— Nick Kroll
Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've been in a longer relationship. It makes me stick my chest out a little bit. It's like, 'I know what you've been through, but you don't know what it's like over here.'
— Dierks Bentley
If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
— Marina Abromovic
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
— Azim Premji
It should be about this team, and it should be about these guys. It should be about our relationship. It shouldn't be about records.
— Ezekiel Elliott
I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
— Madchen Amick
Nineteen was the first time I really had a real relationship, really fell in love, really had my heart broken, really broke her heart, and sex meant something a little bit different.
— Ro James
There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.
— Meghan Markle
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
— Andrew Cohen
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.
— Marc Ostrofsky
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
— Fred Hampton
I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ.
— Kay Robertson
I have a love-hate relationship with performing.
— Sarah Brightman
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
— Sandy Koufax
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
— Eddie Izzard
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.
— Kathy Ireland
A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
— Susannah York
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
— Paris Hilton
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
— Alan Rickman
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.
— Stephen Moyer
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
— David Mitchell
I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.
— Blake Mycoskie
You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
— Steve Harvey
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.
— Sylvester Stallone
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.
— Amy Adams
Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
— Olly Murs
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
— Edmund Hillary
People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.
— Brian Acton
I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
— Ben Affleck
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.
— Sergei Lavrov
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.
— Evan Bayh
The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.
— Max Baucus
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
— Chuck Palahniuk
When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
— Henry Rollins
I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
— Bill Gates
Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.
— Hillary Clinton
I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts and the states that they're dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers' union itself.
— Mitt Romney
American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Of course, we recognize that Egypt has gone through a dramatic change in government. And what their status will be going forward in terms of the relationship with our nation is something which which I'm sure will be developing over time.
— Mitt Romney
Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change.
— Mitt Romney
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
— Taylor Swift
I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
— Taylor Swift
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
— Taylor Swift
If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
— Taylor Swift
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
— Joyce Meyer
Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.
— Joyce Meyer
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
— Joyce Meyer
The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.
— Joyce Meyer
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
— Joyce Meyer
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
— Dolly Parton
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
— Salman Rushdie
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
— Salman Rushdie
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
— Salman Rushdie
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
— Douglas Coupland
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
— Douglas Coupland
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be. 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.
— Michael Moore
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
— Lady Gaga
I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
— Rand Paul
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
— Billy Graham
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
— Jeff Bridges
I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
— Jeff Bridges
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.
— Alice Walker
There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
— Kate Winslet
I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music. 
— Katy Perry
My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.
— Elliott Abrams
I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.
— Cate Blanchett