Quotes About Relationships

45 quotes

Colombian singer-songwriter

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

American actress

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

English modernist writer

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim.

— Mrs. Dalloway

American singer-songwriter

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Russian, French, and American composer

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

French chemist and microbiologist

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

President of France from 2012 to 2017

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Spanish tennis player

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

Polish mathematician and astronomer

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

Italian scholar and poet

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020

Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease outbreaks was made clear with the Ebola virus.

Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

French philosopher, author, and journalist

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

American author and journalist

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

— A Moveable Feast