You can’t raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can’t be solved by a project. It’s solved by a relationship, collaboration.
I had never really dated. I’ve always been a relationship kind of person.
A relationship isn’t going to make me survive. It’s the cherry on top.
I’m a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from ‘Mass Effect’ that is as vivid as any crush that I’ve had on a TV-show character.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
There’s going to be a symbiotic relationship between the edge and the cloud.
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That’s always been a constant.
I don’t want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.
As a grown adult, if you can’t look a woman or look a man in the eye and say, ‘I have serious feelings for you’ and instead you have to say, ‘Do you like me? Check yes or no,’ like we’re in grade school, that to me is a red flag of maturity as far as a relationship goes.
I don’t like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation’s first Americans. That’s included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
‘Outlander’ is based on a group of books; there’s a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic – we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.
When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can’t be 24×7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.
I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
The driving force of any profession includes not only the special knowledge, skills and standards that it demands, but the duty to serve responsibly, selflessly and wisely, and to establish an inherently ethical relationship between professionals and society.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
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.
If you look back on the breakups that you’ve had, whether it’s a long relationship or a one-night stand, it’s always awkward.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things.
I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
I can’t even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.
Everybody needs somebody.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed – it always seemed unfair in some way.
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.
How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often. But I speak to my mum very regularly and have a close relationship with my parents.
When it comes to ‘Glee,’ I feel like I’ve been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.
I have my relationship with God and myself, and that’s what matters to me. I really don’t care what most people think.
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
I am not gay; I don’t have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There’s always something.
The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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.
I get a lot of comments from people that I’m just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.
We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries, the fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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.
I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.
I think our relationship with Seattle has had ups and downs frankly.
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.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
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.
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
