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.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

When I got my first television set I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Be honest brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

The one who loves the least controls the relationship.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.

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.

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.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director and have it be a positive one.

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

When you think about the day-to-day positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

For to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

Positive healthy loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is or they're avoiding commitment altogether.