That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
~By John Fowles ~
I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
~By Dante Hall ~
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
~By C. L. R. James ~
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
~By Richard Gere ~
And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
~By Candice Bergen ~
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
~By Andre Agassi ~
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
~By Ross Perot ~
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
~By E. L. Doctorow ~
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
You need to make relationships to help you.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
~By Michael Dell ~
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
~By Sharon Stone ~
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.
~By Christina Applegate ~
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
~By Rebecca West ~
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.
~By James Meade ~
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
~By Natalie Wood ~
My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
~By Lexa Doig ~
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
~By Ed Bradley ~
You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
~By Beth Orton ~
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
~By Jerome Bruner ~
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
~By Jennifer O'Neill ~
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
~By Andrew Shue ~
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
~By Mike Leigh ~
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
~By A. J. McLean ~
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
~By Ben Stein ~
I make my relationships at work.
~By Carol Kane ~
Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
~By James Garner ~
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.
~By W. H. Auden ~
We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.
~By Mary Hart ~
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
~By August Strindberg ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
~By Christopher Alexander ~
I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
~By Terry McMillan ~
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.
~By John Pistole ~
I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
~By James Caan ~
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
~By Ed Bradley ~
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
~By Anita Roddick ~
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
~By Abbey Lincoln ~
We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.
~By David Rose ~
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
~By Frank Church ~
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.
~By Jody Watley ~
Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
~By Laura Dern ~
I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
~By Robert Benton ~
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
~By Leon Uris ~
Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
~By Francesca Annis ~
It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
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.
~By Walter Rudolf Hess ~
I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
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