Quotes and Sayings about Ships

 

 

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: God, Care, Mistakes, Relationships)

"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wonder)

"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."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Time, Life, Interest, Relationships)

"For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Countries, Rights, Observation, Reason, Relationships, Respect)

"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Work, People, Help, Relationships)

"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: People, Feelings, Relationships, World)

"We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas."
- George Allen
(Related: Men, Women, Afghanistan, Iraq, Security, Ships, World)

"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Help, Right, Today)

"Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Life, People)

"I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Change, Life, People, Regret, Relationships, Want)

"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."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Food, Time, People, Obvious, Question, Relationships)

"There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Companionship, Relationships, Sexuality)

"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Manager, Mother, Friends, Relationships)

"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Fact, Relationships)

"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Men, War, Building, Cities, Enemies, Friends, Sense, Ships)

"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Relationships, Years)

"It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Relationships)

"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."
- Lee Atwater
(Related: Nature, Love, Truth, Brotherhood, Humanity, Illness, Relationships)

"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."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Exploitation, Relationships)

"Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: Science, Astronomy, Fiction, Future, Physics, Ships, Space)

"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Tennis)

"I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown."
- Alan Autry
(Related: Goal, Order, Public, Support)

"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."
- Milton Avery
(Related: Time, Idea, Colors, Emotion, Excitement, Relationships)

"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."
- Dan Aykroyd
(Related: Mother, Ships)

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Solitude)

"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."
- Scott Bakula
(Related: Business, Love, Work, People, Acting, Relationships)

"Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing."
- Robert Ballard
(Related: Time, Exploration, Now, Ships)

"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."
- Elizabeth Banks
(Related: Love, Comfort, Relationships, Zone)

"I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business."
- Ernie Banks
(Related: Business, Work, Career, Loyalty)

"We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Hope, Formula, Names, Schools, Training)

"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."
- Amelia Barr
(Related: People, Difference, Ships)

"The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships."
- Grace Baruch
(Related: Men, Nature, Women, Work, Relationships)

"The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships."
- Peter S. Beagle
(Related: Ships)

"I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Men, Women, Act, Fighting, Talking)

"I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Men, Time, Women, Fight)

"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."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Love, Friendship, Negative, Film, Relationships, Talk)

"I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?"
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Men, Sex, Day, Lies, Order, Present, Relationships)

"If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!"
- Kate Beckinsale
(Related: Sense, Sharing, Years)

"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."
- Marek Belka
(Related: Relationships, State)

"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."
- Robert Benton
(Related: Love, Age, Colors, Murder, Mystery, Nothing, Relationships, Twilight)

"Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter."
- Julie Benz
(Related: Death, People, Bed, Cause, Day, End, Relationships)

"The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it."
- Nicolai A. Berdyaev
(Related: Power)

"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."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Mom, Kids, Parents, Relationships)

"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."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Financial, Boys, Commitment, Relationships)

"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: World)

"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."
- Halle Berry
(Related: Marriage, Men, Luck, Relationships)

"The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy."
- Harry A. Blackmun
(Related: Home, Heart, Constitution, Intimacy, Privacy, Protection, Relationships, Right)

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
- William Blake
(Related: Money, People, Cause, Miser, Passion, Thieving, Want)

"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome."
- William Bligh
(Related: Adventure, Ships, Summer, Water, Winter, Wood)

"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."
- Kurtis Blow
(Related: Famous, World)

"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings."
- Bodhidharma
(Related: Blessings, Deeds, Evil, Result)

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Land, Man, Poor, Race)

"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing."
- Randolph Bourne
"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: Experience, Discovery, Ships, World)

"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Life, People, Relationships)

"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."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Money, Success, Relationships, Sense)

"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
(Related: Men, Time, Sex, Civilization, Fact, Idiots, Relationships)

"It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Love, People, Moments, Relationships, Support)

"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."
- Sonia Braga
(Related: Vision, Relationships, Universe)

"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."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Honesty, Personality, Reason, Relationships, Writing)

"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Friendship, First, Smile, Years)

"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Family, Friends, Relationships)

"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: America, Churches)

"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces."
- Earl Browder
(Related: Power, Growth, Radical, Relationships, World)

"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."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Friends, Parents, Relationships)

"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
- Jerome Bruner
(Related: Facts, Relationships)

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
- Buddha
(Related: People, Habit, Doubt, Nothing, Poison)

"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Ships)

"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."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Advertising, Creation, Originality, Relationships, Words)

"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Advertising, Creation, Relationships, Words)

"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all."
- John Burns
(Related: Action, Books)

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Family, Friends, Relationships)

"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Luck)

"You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Luck)

"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Gain, Man, Moon, Ships, Universe, Will)

"I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Life, Negative, Energy, Smiles)

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Time, Teen, Heart, Being, Friends, Girls, Talk, Will)

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Marriage, Friends, Man, Will)

"I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence."
- John Byng
(Related: Time)

"By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line."
- John Byng
(Related: Time, Enemy, Past, Ships)

"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."
- James Caan
(Related: Family, People, Fact, Man, Play, Relationships, World)

"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."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Time, Work, Business, Daughter, People, First, Now, Relationships, Right)

"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Time, Kings, Ships, Talk)

"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Life, Press, Problems, Relationships)

"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."
- Helena Bonham Carter
(Related: Business, Work, People, Relationships, Talk)

"So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years."
- Steve Case
(Related: Years)

"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."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Being, Body, Loss, Relationships)

"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Delusion, Lies, Relationships)

"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
- Chanakya
(Related: Happiness, People, Friends, Will)

"I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."
- Jung Chang
(Related: Time, First, Merit, Open, Study)

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Education, Contempt, Man)

"I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue."
- Alonzo Church
(Related: School)

"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."
- Frank Church
(Related: Credibility, Independence, May, Media, Press, Relationships)

"I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Trust, Relationships)

"So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year."
- Roy Clark
(Related: Country, Draft, Help, Job, Scouting)

"In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing."
- Nick Clooney
(Related: People, Relationships, Ugliness)

"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."
- Jonathan Coe
(Related: Books, Countries, France, Italy, Relationships)

"The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant."
- Stephen Cohen
(Related: Environment, Relationships)

"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."
- Ornette Coleman
(Related: Business, Company, Relationships)

"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Adversity, United)

"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face."
- Bill Condon
(Related: Relationships)

"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Sea, Ships)

"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Love)

"The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Temple, Blame, Man, Praise)

"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."
- Pete Coors
(Related: Work, People, Airplanes, Benefits, Relationships)

"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
- John Corigliano
(Related: People, Competition, Names, Relationships)

"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: People, Entertainment, Machines, Relationships)

"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."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Quality, Relationships)

"A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator."
- William Cowper
(Related: Man, Self)

"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."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Partnership, Relationships)

"I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about."
- John Cusack
(Related: Love, People, Relationships, Talk, Talking)

"Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly."
- Chuck Daly
"In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another."
- William Dampier
(Related: Road, Ships, Water)

"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Possessions, Relationships, Treasure)

"Friendships are forgotten when the game begins."
- Alvin Dark
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Man, Worth)

"You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing."
- Terrell Davis
"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Life, Day, Relationships, Writers)

"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Conflict, Relationships, Suspense)

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Business, Technology, Customer, Relationships)

"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Quality, Relationships, Result)

"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."
- James Denton
(Related: Divorce, Relationships)

"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."
- Laura Dern
(Related: Movies, People, Children, Desperation, Light, Longing, Relationships)

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."
- Richard M. DeVos
(Related: Life, Money, Peace, Meaning, Mind, Relationships)

"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."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Women, Career, Now, Relationships, Right)

"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Life, Time, Business, Focus, Trying)

"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it."
- Rocco DiSpirito
(Related: Business, People, Relationships)

"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Want)

"Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Time, Competition, Rest, Will, Worry)

"You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Day)

"You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Career)

"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."
- E. L. Doctorow
(Related: Life, People, Fact, Relationships, State)

"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Work, Relationships)

"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Marriage, Jobs, Relationships, Stability)

"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?"
- Robert Downey, Jr.
(Related: Marriage, People, Relationships, Will)

"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."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: People, Alienation, Relationships, World)

"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Absence, Judgment, Magic, Relationships)

"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Dignity, Obligation, Relationships)

"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."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Life, People, Relationships)

"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him."
- Sheena Easton
(Related: Mother, Relationships)

"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."
- Eknath Easwaran
(Related: Experience, Life, Idea, Behavior, Crisis, Future, Relationships)

"My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?"
- Anthony Edwards
(Related: Family, Being, Gain, Relationships)

"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
- Zac Efron
(Related: Basketball, Day, Wrong)

"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
- George Eliot
(Related: Agreement)

"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
- David Elkind
(Related: Adolescence, Chance, Childhood, Choice)

"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection."
- Albert Ellis
(Related: Time, People, Effort, Rejection, Relationships)

"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Future, Help, Past, Succeed, Will)

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
- Epicurus
(Related: Courage, Adversity, Being, Relationships)

"Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions."
- William Falconer
(Related: War, Ships)

"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
- Corey Feldman
(Related: Experience, Childhood, Kids, Ships, Water)

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."
- Brian Ferneyhough
(Related: Work, Relationships, World)

"These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Life, Communication, Relationships)

"I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships."
- Calista Flockhart
(Related: Relationships)

"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."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Experience, People, Focus, Interest, May, Relationships)

"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."
- Luke Ford
(Related: Anger, Life, People, Acting, Hatred, Loss)

"It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Blame, Mistakes)

"I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(Related: War, Hate, Starvation)

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(Related: Love, Nature, Courage, Calamity, Faces, Human nature, Will)

"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Age, Time, Deep, Kids, Relationships, School)

"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
- John Fowles
(Related: Men, Women, Relationships, Sexes)

"Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: People, First, Pride, Relationships)

"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
- James Franco
(Related: Film, Relationships)

"I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Community, Relationships)

"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."
- Dennis Franz
(Related: Time, Work, Actors, Devotion, End, Relationships, Will)

"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."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Family, Health, Medical, Generations, Prevention, Problems, Relationships, Struggle, Suicide, Violence, Years)

"). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Nations, Ships)

"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."
- Victor Garber
(Related: People, Care, Relationships, World)

"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."
- James Garner
(Related: Movies, People, Now, Relationships, Want)

"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."
- Gloria Gaynor
(Related: Being, Lady, Relationships)

"My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: Money, Father, Thought, Fun, Support, World)

"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."
- Boy George
(Related: Learning, Relationships, Sexuality, Therapy, Wrong, Years)

"Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after."
- Gil Gerard
(Related: Ships)

"I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Relationships)

"I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Women, Company, Deep)

"I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most."
- Jerry Goldsmith
(Related: People, Action, Choice, Film, Quiet, Relationships, Variety)

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
- Daniel Goleman
(Related: Emotions, Empathy, Relationships, Self)

"But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job."
- Daniel Goleman
(Related: Intelligence, Successful, Job, Relationships, Will)

"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Design, People, Positive, Moods, Relationships)

"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: People, Neighbors, Open, Relationships)

"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."
- Genevieve Gorder
(Related: Deep, Goodbye, Relationships, Saying)

"Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins."
- Stone Gossard
(Related: Change, Problems, Relationships, Right, Thinking, World)

"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."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Actors, Now, Relationships, Support)

"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."
- Billy Graham
(Related: God, Future, Relationships)

"The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school."
- William H. Gray
(Related: Society, America, Argument, Minority, Pursuit, School)

"Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Light, Ships, Space)

"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
- Graham Greene
(Related: Kindness, Lies, Relationships, Worth)

"Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people."
- Harold H. Greene
(Related: People, Acting, Name, World)

"Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Sex, People, Gay, Relationships, Saying, Today)

"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."
- John Grierson
(Related: Leadership, Society, Thought, Appreciation, Relationships)

"A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: People, Dogs, Living, Relationships)

"I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have."
- Dante Hall
(Related: Love, Coach, Relationships)

"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."
- John Hannah
(Related: Education, Discovery, Man, March, Old, Relationships)

"Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up."
- Tim Hardaway
(Related: Money, People, Right)

"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."
- Marcia Gay Harden
(Related: Family, Work, Competition, Favorite, Relationships)

"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Marriage, Difficulty, Law, Relationships)

"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Law, Murder, Nation, Relationships)

"Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand."
- Townsend Harris
(Related: Countries, Invention)

"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
- Townsend Harris
(Related: Time, War)

"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."
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
(Related: Intelligence, Imagination, Love, Danger, Kindness, Relationships, Will)

"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."
- Randy Harrison
(Related: People, Meaning, Relationships)

"We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too."
- Mary Hart
(Related: Relationships, Talk, Will)

"Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt."
- John Hawkins
(Related: God, Hurt, Ships)

"Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Old)

"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Relationships)

"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."
- Eric Heiden
(Related: Chance, Day, Party, Rest, Weekend, World)

"I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on."
- Don Henley
(Related: Men, Politics, Religion, Women, Ecology, Focus, Interest, Relationships)

"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."
- Barbara Hershey
(Related: People, Events, Mystery, Relationships)

"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."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Thought, Positive, First, Law, Obedience, Relationships)

"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."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Work, People, Challenge, Relationships)

"To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous."
- John Hewson
(Related: War, Ships, Troops)

"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Airplanes, Land, Military, Nations, Security, World)

"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."
- Lauryn Hill
(Related: Relationships)

"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."
- Hans Hofmann
(Related: Music, Harmony, Now, Relationships)

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
(Related: Ships)

"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
- John Howard
(Related: Countries, Relationships, Years)

"I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights."
- Clara Hughes
(Related: Winning, Day, Now, Right, Training, Trying, World)

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."
- Johan Huizinga
(Related: History, Nothing, Relationships, Will)

"People can be slave-ships in shoes."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: People)

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: Man, Ships)

"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."
- Anjelica Huston
(Related: Thought, Relationships)

"I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck."
- Anjelica Huston
(Related: Relationships)

"I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling."
- Hugh Jackman
(Related: Love, Marriage, Day, Relationships)

"Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships."
- C. L. R. James
(Related: People, Capitalism, Production, Relationships)

"Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship."
- LeBron James
(Related: Goal, Winning, Will)

"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."
- Thomas Jane
(Related: People, Ability, Relationships)

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family."
- Jerry B. Jenkins
(Related: Family, Heartbreak, Relationships)

"There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved."
- Donald Johanson
(Related: Time, Friends)

"When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Thoughts, Focus, Miscellaneous, Past, Relationships)

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Failure, Bombs)

"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."
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
(Related: Faith, People, American, Deep, Hurt, Justice, Nation, Pain, Race, Relationships)

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
- Michael Jordan
(Related: Intelligence, Talent, Teamwork, Games)

"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."
- Mike Judge
(Related: Money, Attitude, Friends, Relationships)

"I make my relationships at work."
- Carol Kane
(Related: Work, Relationships)

"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."
- Charlie Kaufman
(Related: Friends, Relationships, Relatives, World)

"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."
- Philip Kaufman
(Related: America, Relationships)

"In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Building, Relationships)

"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
- Kevin Kelly
(Related: Time, Future, Relationships)

"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time."
- Kevin Kelly
(Related: Time, Relationships)

"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
- Thomas Keneally
(Related: Society, Dogs, Ireland, Ships)

"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Relationships)

"Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships."
- Billie Jean King
(Related: Sports, Women, Beginning, Girls, states, United)

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: May, Now, Ships)

"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Being, End, Energy, Relationships)

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
- C. Everett Koop
(Related: Children, First, Parents, Play, Relationships, Want)

"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: Art, Relationships)

"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."
- Peter Krause
(Related: Relationships)

"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."
- Peter Krause
(Related: People, Being, Children, Eyes, Fact, Present, Relationships)

"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."
- Mike Krzyzewski
(Related: Winning, Crisis, Kentucky)

"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!"
- Akshay Kumar
"But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together."
- Neil LaBute
(Related: People, Relationships)

"Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?"
- Neil LaBute
(Related: Trust, People, Relationships)

"Relationships do not preclude issues of morality."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Related: Morality, Relationships)

"I fancy our chances at the European Championships."
- Frank Lampard
(Related: Fancy)

"Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Children, Mankind, Motives, Religious, Sincerity)

"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."
- Mike Leigh
(Related: Poetry, Accidents, Film, Relationships, Spirit)

"Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Time, Work, People, Money, Thinking, Value)

"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."
- Abbey Lincoln
(Related: People, First, Meeting, Relationships, Spirit)

"We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Peace, Building, Fighting, Terrorism)

"We need new partnerships for peace and security."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Peace, Security)

"No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals."
- Belva Lockwood
(Related: Money, Christian, Building)

"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."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Relationships)

"There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned."
- Lindsay Lohan
"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Life, Darkness, Night, Ocean, Ships, Silence, Voice)

"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."
- George Lopez
(Related: Time, Fighting, Relationships)

"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."
- Audre Lorde
(Related: Parenting, Community, Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Relationships)

"The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't."
- Greg Louganis
(Related: Sports, People, Opportunity, Positive, Games, Self)

"Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals."
- Juliette G. Low
(Related: Ideals, United)

"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable."
- John D. MacDonald
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
- Hugh Mackay
(Related: Life, People, Nothing, Relationships)

"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
- Hugh Mackay
(Related: Love, Idea, Choice, Culture)

"We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships."
- Gavin MacLeod
(Related: Ships)

"We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth."
- Gavin MacLeod
(Related: Thought, People, Ships, Will, Years)

"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."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: Time, Books, Mind, Network, Opposition, Relationships, Writers)

"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."
- Margaret Mahy
(Related: People, Ideas, Games, Language, Relationships, Words, World)

"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."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Values, Feeling, Now, Relationships, Sense)

"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."
- Murray Gell Mann
(Related: Building, Relationships, Running, Universe)

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
- Christopher Marlowe
(Related: Ships)

"So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me."
- Kathy Mattea
(Related: Change, Family, Marriage, Being, Career, Play, World)

"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: People, Fact, Old, Trying)

"But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children."
- Armistead Maupin
(Related: Men, People, Children, Gay, Shadows)

"I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships."
- Brian McBride
(Related: Sports, Being)

"The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism."
- Mitch McConnell
(Related: Change, President, Prosperity, Security, Terrorism, Want)

"True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Business, Hollywood, Myths)

"No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships."
- Ewan McGregor
(Related: People, Relationships)

"That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more."
- Michael McKean
(Related: Job)

"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous."
- Ian Mckellen
(Related: Marriage, People, Rights, Gay, Relationships)

"If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy."
- Ian Mckellen
(Related: Love, People, March, Possibilities, Relationships, Saying, Want)

"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."
- A. J. McLean
(Related: Girlfriend, Being, Fans, Relationships, Want)

"I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other."
- Terry McMillan
(Related: Lovers, Relationships)

"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."
- James Meade
(Related: Policy, Economics, Interest, Theory)

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."
- Sam Mendes
(Related: Actors, Relationships, Silence, Words)

"The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Policy, Country, Relationships, World)

"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
- Angela Merkel
(Related: World)

"They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today."
- Debbie Meyer
(Related: Women, Time, College, May, Today)

"Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future."
- Christina Milian
(Related: Time, Future, Now, Relationships, Right)

"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."
- Gretchen Mol
(Related: God, History, Religion, Husbands, Relationships, Voice)

"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."
- Dominic Monaghan
(Related: Cows, Disease, Now, Relationships)

"Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity."
- Thomas Moore
(Related: Heaven, Sea, Ships)

"Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater."
- Marguerite Moreau
(Related: Relationships, Theater)

"Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer."
- Jason Mraz
(Related: People, Cause, Meeting, Relationships, Traveling, Variety, World)

"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."
- Graeme Murphy
(Related: Journey, Reality, Relationships)

"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."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Marriage, Strength, Divorce, Law, Relationships, Years)

"And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful."
- Eddie Murray
(Related: Successful, Media)

"John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Car, Media, Name, Oil)

"All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there."
- V. S. Naipaul
(Related: Life, Mystery, Will, Writing)

"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Choice, Competition, Study)

"Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries."
- Richard Neal
(Related: Muslim, Countries, National security, Relationships, Trade)

"So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: Goal, Israel, Weapons)

"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well."
- Bebe Neuwirth
(Related: Health, Work, People, Friends, Pretty, Profession, Relationships)

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."
- Jack Nicholson
(Related: Life, Marriage, Thought, Policy, Relationships, Theory)

"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us."
- Greg Norman
(Related: Opportunity, Play)

"The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives."
- George William Norris
(Related: Government, War, American, Congress, Germany, President, Reason, Ships)

"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
- Gale Norton
(Related: Conservation)

"Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners."
- Gale Norton
(Related: Management, Land)

"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."
- Krist Novoselic
(Related: Relationships)

"You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way."
- Dave Obey
(Related: Life, People)

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."
- Carroll O'Connor
(Related: Business, Years)

"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century."
- Kenzaburo Oe
(Related: Life, Society, Family, Living)

"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."
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
(Related: Government, People, Churches, Open, Parents, Relationships, Right, Schools)

"Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination."
- Marvin Olasky
(Related: Women, Discrimination, Gain, Jobs, Population, Today)

"I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that."
- Gary Oldman
(Related: Science, Ships, Space)

"I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships."
- Jean O'Leary
(Related: Lesbianism, Relationships, Sound, Want)

"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."
- Jennifer O'Neill
(Related: Relationships, Trying, Will)

"We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines."
- Jose C. Orozco
(Related: Earth, Fashion, Machines, Ships)

"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: African, Americans, Schools)

"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."
- Beth Orton
(Related: Musicians, Relationships)

"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."
- Ovid
(Related: Money, Fortune, Lies, Man, Nothing, Poor)

"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."
- Jesse Owens
(Related: Awards, Competition, Friends, Gold)

"I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships."
- Amos Oz
(Related: Time, People, Conflict, First, Years)

"There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships."
- Rafael Palmeiro
(Related: History, Boston)

"No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink."
- Bill Parcells
(Related: Winning, Games, Now)

"Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best."
- Joseph Parry
(Related: Change, Time)

"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Friend)

"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."
- Michel Patini
(Related: France, Memory, Past, World)

"My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships."
- Westbrook Pegler
(Related: Mind, Spiritual)

"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."
- Richard Perle
(Related: People, Control, Enemies)

"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."
- Ross Perot
(Related: Business, Deals, Engineering, Relationships, Service)

"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Love, People, Gold, Needs, Relationships, Sense, Value)

"I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality."
- Daniel Petrie
(Related: Quality, Feeling, First, Relationships)

"In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration."
- John L. Phillips
(Related: People, Exploration, Ships, Space, World)

"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."
- John Pistole
(Related: Intelligence, Technology, Focus, Mission, Priorities, Public, Relationships, Support, Traveling, Want)

"He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one."
- Rick Pitino
(Related: Basketball, College, Relationships)

"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."
- Victoria Pratt
(Related: Feelings, Relationships, Vulnerability)

"The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that."
- Emeric Pressburger
(Related: Women, Children, Ships)

"I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships."
- Katie Price
(Related: Life, Relationships)

"He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is."
- Nick Price
(Related: Time, Talent)

"Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away."
- Sextus Propertius
(Related: Being, Gold, Man, Now)

"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."
- Vladimir Putin
(Related: Government, History, Mankind)

"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
- Gilda Radner
(Related: Women, Clothes, Cute, First, Man, Ships, Woman)

"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: Business, Work, Corruption, Countries, Relationships, Tradition)

"My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence."
- Janet Reno
(Related: Hope, America, Building, Crime, Violence, Will)

"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Childhood, Relationships)

"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration."
- Mercer Reynolds
(Related: Business, Friend, Company, Exploration, Oil)

"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."
- Donna Rice
(Related: Anger, Work, Men, People, Relationships, Scandal)

"As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway."
- Adam Rich
(Related: People, Problems, Relationships)

"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
- W. D. Richter
(Related: Ships, Space)

"However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition."
- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Legal, Sex, Disgrace, Eyes, Rights, Law, Protection, Saying, Support)

"Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Life, Science, Consulting, Relationships, Schools, Scientists)

"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."
- Guy Ritchie
(Related: Work, Eating, Relationships)

"Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend."
- Jason Ritter
(Related: People, Friend, Relationships)

"I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships."
- Tim Robbins
(Related: Life, Movies, People, African, American, Fact, Relationships)

"Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen."
- John Robinson
(Related: Life)

"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."
- Anita Roddick
(Related: Production, Relationships, Spirit, Thinking, Trouble)

"Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not."
- James E. Rogers
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: People, Freedom, Independence, Job, Security)

"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."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: Peace, Science, Civilization, Ability, Relationships, World)

"We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company."
- David Rose
(Related: People, Company, Relationships)

"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."
- Barney Ross
(Related: Duty)

"Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships."
- Barney Ross
(Related: Ships)

"I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money."
- Brandon Routh
(Related: Money, Power, People, Control, End, Relationships)

"We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it."
- Darius Rucker
(Related: Work, Golf, Minority)

"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."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Family, Heart, Relationships)

"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."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Work, Truth, Being, Relationships, Saying, Want)

"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God."
- Saadi
(Related: God)

"I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships."
- Gabriela Sabatini
(Related: People, Relationships, Talk)

"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Will, World)

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
- George Santayana
(Related: Friends, Intimacy)

"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."
- Rick Santorum
(Related: History, Marriage, Society, Children, Future, Man, Relationships, Woman)

"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
- Jose Saramago
(Related: Attitude, Americans, Relationships)

"As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Relationships)

"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."
- Jennifer Saunders
(Related: Men, Women, Relationships)

"Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations."
- Gunther Schuller
(Related: Being, Years)

"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: People)

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Strength, Winning, Surrender)

"I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships."
- David Schwimmer
(Related: Friends)

"And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Money, Boys, Girls, Jobs, Recreation, Training)

"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."
- Ridley Scott
(Related: Relationships)

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past."
- Robert Falcon Scott
(Related: Death, Help, Journey, Past, Regret, Writing)

"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."
- Jason Segel
(Related: Money, Ladies, Reason, Relationships)

"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
- Anton Seidl
(Related: Music, Development, America, Schools, Study, Teachers)

"All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death."
- Ernest Thompson Seton
(Related: Death)

"I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health."
- Tony Shalhoub
(Related: Health, Work, People, Career, Mental health, Possessions, Relationships)

"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?"
- Garry Shandling
(Related: Commitment, Feeling, Friends, Intimacy, Problems, Reflection, Relationships)

"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."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Sports, Time, Life, Friends, Fun, Relationships)

"You need to make relationships to help you."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Help, Relationships)

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."
- Charles Simic
(Related: Ships)

"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."
- Georg Simmel
(Related: Individuality, Relationships, Result)

"I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much."
- Ione Skye
(Related: Life, Perception, Class, Now)

"Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish."
- Barbara Smith
(Related: Faith, Love, Trust, Beginning, Living, Relationships)

"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."
- Bubba Smith
(Related: Football, Relationships)

"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."
- Courtney Thorne Smith
(Related: People, Actor, Being, Body, Clothes, Hair, Relationships)

"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."
- Michael W. Smith
(Related: Wife, Day, Kids, Relationships)

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
- Sydney Smith
(Related: Happiness, Life, Love, Existence)

"It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Freedom, President)

"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Life, People, Relationships, World)

"I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those."
- David Spade
(Related: Relationships)

"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Death, Government, Airplanes)

"I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Life, Heart, God, Man)

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Life, Success, Achievement, Relationships)

"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Day, School, Ships)

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Age, Health, Education, Money, Nothing, Profit, State, Talk)

"I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them."
- Kristen Stewart
(Related: Relationships, Talking)

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."
- Sharon Stone
(Related: Men, Women, Relationships)

"Friendships are discovered rather than made."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here."
- Trish Stratus
(Related: Women, Winning, Athletes, Being)

"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."
- Gustav Stresemann
(Related: Change, Life, Haste, Nation, Nations, Present, Relationships)

"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."
- August Strindberg
(Related: Life, Character, Man, Relationships)

"The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last."
- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Love, Successful, Gay, Romantic)

"FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men."
- Stuart Symington
(Related: Men, Navy, Now, Ships)

"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Fight)

"We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships."
- Tom Tancredo
(Related: Now)

"Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women."
- Deborah Tannen
(Related: Women, Girls, Relationships, Talk)

"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships."
- Deborah Tannen
(Related: Women, Conversation, Language, Relationships)

"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."
- James Taylor
(Related: Failure, Relationships, Years)

"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."
- Terence
(Related: Time, Beginning)

"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
(Related: Politics)

"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."
- Arnold J. Toynbee
(Related: Power, God, Man)

"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."
- Brian Tracy
(Related: Relationships)

"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."
- Leon Uris
(Related: People, Relationships, Writing)

"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
- Lech Walesa
(Related: Sympathy, Force, Nation, Past, Silence, State, World)

"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
- Alice Walker
(Related: Mind)

"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways."
- Alfred Russel Wallace
(Related: Laws, Trees)

"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Men, Relationships, Spiritual)

"I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Property, Service, Tears, Will)

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."
- Andy Warhol
(Related: Caring, First, Relationships, Television)

"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."
- Jody Watley
(Related: First, Passion, Relationships)

"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships."
- Eberhard Weber
(Related: Thought, People, Famous, Pretty, Relationships)

"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."
- Sanford I. Weill
(Related: Life, Sports, People, Competition, Relationships, School)

"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."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: Nature, Time, Women, Marriage, Relationships, Years)

"These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that."
- Brian Welch
(Related: Women, Old, Years)

"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships."
- H. G. Wells
"I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships."
- Irvine Welsh
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
- Rebecca West
(Related: Knowledge, Relationships)

"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."
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: People, Aggression, Opposition, Order, Relationships)

"I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force."
- William Whipple
(Related: Experience, Enemies, Force, Ships, states, Trade)

"Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M."
- Ryan White
(Related: Mom, Financial, Job)

"Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God."
- Armstrong Williams
(Related: Love, Peace, God)

"For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war."
- Armstrong Williams
(Related: War, History, Beginning, Country, Democracy, End, First, Post, Relationships, Trade)

"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."
- Lucinda Williams
(Related: People, Being, Fantasy, Relationships, Trouble, Writing)

"If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: Power, Life, Europe, Germany, Ships)

"No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band."
- Ann Wilson
(Related: Love, Sex, Relationships)

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
- Henry Winkler
(Related: Relationships)

"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."
- Jeanette Winterson
(Related: Men, Women, Relationships)

"On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character."
- Alicia Witt
(Related: Girlfriend, Character, Kissing, Relationships, Saying, Worry, Wrong)

"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Actor, Relationships, Today)

"The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be."
- Tiger Woods
(Related: Career, Focus)

"It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed."
- Fay Wray
(Related: Mother, Being, Parents)

"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."
- Xenophon
(Related: Leader, Being, Cause, Followers, Moments, Will)

"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
- A. B. Yehoshua
(Related: Gold, Literature, Relationships)

"The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe."
- Neil Young
(Related: Now, Universe)

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."
- Zig Ziglar
(Related: Home, People, Relationships)