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Relationship Quotes
"I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at."
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"He talking Louisiana, you speaking Tennessee. The music so different, the sound coming from a different part of the body. It must of been like hearing lyrics set to scores by two different composers. But when you made love he must of have said I love you and you understood that and it was true, too, because I have seen the desperation in his eyes ever since-no matter what business venture he thinks up."
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"And what do you believe?A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning."
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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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"I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons."
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"It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny."
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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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"It's not what's happened or what's about to happen, what's important is the sense of emotional uncertainty between the characters and the delicacy of the mutual trust being established."
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"Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well."
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"The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault."
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"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
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"Despite his soft speech, he stared at her as he'd like to eat her whole. Damn her traitorous body if that thought wasn't such a bad one. This could not be happening. She was on the run from a maniac and her hormones were going haywire. Clearly, she had issues."
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"All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that."
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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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"Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ['Beware of the neighbor']"
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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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"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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"What is love after all but trusting in the unknown."
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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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"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
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"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."
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"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values."
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"I miss talking to her and talking to her used to make me feel alive."
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"If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours."
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"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
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"If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why."
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"Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases."
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"But I never just quite liked that ryhme.''Why not, child?''Because it seems to say one's as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that's lost. . . . Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight."
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"I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray."
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"Man has his will - but woman has her way."
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"A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other."
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"I've found a new kind of home in us, and I'm ready to move in for good."
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"I'm not comfortable in this stadium, I explained, trying to look calm."I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?"
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"I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction."
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"If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count."
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"Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret."
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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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"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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"It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable."
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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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"The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets."
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"And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom."
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"When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty."
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"Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most."
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"Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I've lasted five years now. What's five more?"
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"When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you..."
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"There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it."
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"All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand."
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"My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore.I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter."
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