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Relationship Quotes
"Simple misunderstanding, and couple forget the lovely moments they spent before marriage and during honeymoon."
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"If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear."
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"He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one."
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"Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they're gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you're ignored, and then you write to them again and you're ignored and finally you write to them for a third time and they barely even want to make the appointment, they're so busy with their job, their friends and their car. How would you feel?"
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"He rocked her against him. "No idea what I'm going to do with you." She didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good."
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"Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived."
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"Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;-and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands."
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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."
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"Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn't last, it prepares you for the one that will."
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"It had always been Roth; from the moment he swaggered into that d- alley, where I'd been unsuccessfully fighting off a demon, it had been him for me. Maybe I'd been too blind to see that after he returned from the pits. Maybe I had been too angry with him after the way he initially acted."
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"She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston."
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"Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him."
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"First - class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust."
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"It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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"Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen."
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"Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence."
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"What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities."
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"You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other."
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"If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship."
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"No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it."
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"Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul."
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"Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to findthat their wives do have sense?''Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied."
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"Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?"
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"If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast."
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"We've been together 32 years and married for 27."
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"They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other."
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"Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage."
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"When all the fights stop, so does the passion."
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"Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better."
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"At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person."
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"Friends ask you questions, enemies question you."
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"A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word 'no, ' of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat"
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"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
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"Don't marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If you can't live with someone who drinks or someone who isn't a Christian or someone who isn't clean, then don't marry that kind of person. The chances for miraculous improvements or changes in behavior are slim. What you see is what you get!"
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"That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough."
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"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other."
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"Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow."
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"I pat her on the head. 'Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake."
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"Being together does not always mean happy."
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"You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form which lies on this couch. We shall meet again - perhaps in the shining mists of Orion's Sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in prehistoric Asia. Perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight; perhaps in some other form an aeon hence, when the solar system shall have been swept away."
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"I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!"
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"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."
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"This date had started as bland and was speeding right along to abysmal."
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"Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment."
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"And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else."
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"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."
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"Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU."
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