relationships
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.
2 quotes from Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
9 more thoughts from Iris Murdoch
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.
10 thoughts from Hermann Hesse
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
3 thoughts from James Baldwin
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
18 sayings from Andy Warhol
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
60 more wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
2 sayings from Robert Fitzgerald
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
29 more wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
11 views from Graham Greene
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
3 wisdom & wit from Cyril Cusack
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
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.
9 other thoughts from Rainer Maria Rilke
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
3 quotes from Louis Kronenberger
God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.
3 thoughts from Addison Mizner
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
5 thoughts from Gianni Versace
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
7 quotes from Homer
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
14 other wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
9 more sayings from Alfred Adler
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.
7 other sayings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
2 more quotes from Wendell Willkie
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
3 other quotes from Georg Simmel
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
4 sayings from Dean Acheson
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
2 other quotes from Norman McLaren
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
2 more sayings from Pietro Aretino
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
6 wisdom & wit from B. R. Ambedkar
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
3 quotes from May Sarton
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.
24 other quotes from James A. Baldwin
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
18 more thoughts from Pearl S. Buck
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
6 quotes from Jerzy Kosinski
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.
5 quotes from Igor Stravinsky
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
53 more views from Marilyn Monroe
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
3 sayings from Luigi Pirandello