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 ~
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
~By Peter Krause ~
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.
~By Dennis Franz ~
I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
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 ~
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
~By Harrison Ford ~
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
~By Ella Maillart ~
A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
~By Boy George ~
I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.
~By Jason Segel ~
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
~By Rick Santorum ~
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 ~
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 ~
I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
~By Gretchen Mol ~
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
~By Leon Uris ~
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
~By Ed Bradley ~
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
~By Stephen Covey ~
I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
~By James Denton ~
I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.
~By Elizabeth Banks ~
I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.
~By George Lopez ~
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.
~By Katie Price ~
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
~By Ben Stein ~
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
~By Scott Bakula ~
Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
~By James Franco ~
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 biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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 ~
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
~By Aaliyah ~
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
~By John Hannah ~
Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
~By Pam Grier ~
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 ~
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
~By Lexa Doig ~
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.
~By Peter Krause ~
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
~By Akshay Kumar ~
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
~By Candice Bergen ~
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 ~
As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
~By Marek Belka ~
The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
~By Jim Carrey ~
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'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
~By Halle Berry ~
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.
~By Pete Coors ~
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
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 ~
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
~By Donna Rice ~
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
~By Thomas Jane ~
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
~By Chester Brown ~
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
~By Milton Avery ~
Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
~By Garry Shandling ~
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 ~
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 ~
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
~By Jennifer O'Neill ~
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
~By Jerome Bruner ~
We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
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 ~
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
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 ~
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.
~By Mike Judge ~
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 ~
It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
~By James Taylor ~
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 ~
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.
~By Christina Applegate ~
We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
~By Bubba Smith ~
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
~By Lee Atwater ~
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~By Henry Winkler ~
Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
~By Gloria Gaynor ~
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
~By Dante Hall ~
It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
~By Victor Garber ~
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