#relations

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#lot #make #marriage #people #real

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#autonomy #been #comfortable #comforting #different

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#condemn #dictate #disagree #only #relationship

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

#doubt #dreadful #friendships #habit #hurts

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end. ↗

— Jane Campion

#behind #each #end #in the end #know

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#about #again #beautiful #cherished #deserve

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#because #been #best #debate #diplomatic

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#beyond #both #bounds #chosen #comes

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#fooled #must #nature #over #precedence