#relations

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

#consider #days #dump #good #good mother

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#come #country #everyone #far #long

I don’t mind waiting rooms. I’m waiting on the love of my life, so I may as well have a seat, right?
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #patience #patient #relationships #romantic

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#individual #individual person #intimate #most #person

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ancestors #choose #create #ones #others

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#anger #argue #bone #consider #disagree

It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence? ↗

— Isabel Lopez

#separation #sibling-relationships #silence #dreams

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year. ↗

— Colin Firth

#america #belong #briefly #extent #felt

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

#based #beyond #combined #does #experience