As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe RuthThe person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
Doug CouplandWit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark TwainAn engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged, no harm can be done.
Jane AustenMinimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck PalahniukMy greatest environments in which I can grow or grow up is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
Alanis MorissetteIf 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. RooseveltThere is but one way for a president to deal with Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it is really going to work the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhen you make a sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellProbably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did.
Woody AllenThe importance of building relationships among colleagues of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary ClintonThe mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich FrommIt is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent PealeA 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