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Relationship Quotes
"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
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"Don't stay because you think you can change him.You can't change him.Maybe work on changing yourself so you don't feel compelled to stay with menlike him in the first place."
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"Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval."
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"A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."
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"A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed."
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"A husband is very much like a house or a horse."
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"The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love."
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"We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
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"From the moment they'd met, their friendship had been leading to more."
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"I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention."
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"Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield."
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"[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other."
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"Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less."
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"There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States."
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"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
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"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
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"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
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"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."
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"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."
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"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
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"He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. "It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars."
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"Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust."
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"I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship."
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"The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'-thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it."
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"I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily."
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"I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy."
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"Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other."
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"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different."
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
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"Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway. There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it."
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"If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you."
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"We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!"
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"A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours."
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"You may control people physically by force, but you won't change their hearts and minds-that requires trust and friendship."
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"A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same."
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"When a man meets the right woman, he meets a new strength!"
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"When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in."
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"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
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"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
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"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."
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"The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening."
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"Make no mistake-we don't trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination."
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"Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn't require a solution."
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"She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out."
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"I don't have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares."
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"As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom."
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"Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well."
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"I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets."
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