Browsing Quotes With Tag: relationships (34)
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anger is just vulnerability’s mask.
Speaker: Warren FarrellPosted: 09 Jan 2015 at 2:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Chain bookstores always amaze me, because it seems like someone has written a book about absolutely everything. I think that’s why bookstores have become the hot place for single adults to hook up – bookstores have a built-in pick-up line that always fits the situation. You simply walk up to any desirable person in the place, look at whatever section they’re in, and you say (with a certain sense of endearing bewilderment), “Isn’t it insane how many books there are about ____?” Fill in the blank with any subject at which the individual happens to be looking, and you will always seem perceptive. Of course there’s going to be a ridiculous number of books on draft horses (or David Berkowitz, or the pipe organ renaissance, or theories about the mating habits of the Sasquatch, or whatever), and you will both enjoy the chuckle over the concept of literary overkill. The best part of this scheme is that it actually seems spontaneous. Bookstores have always been a great place for liars and sexual predators.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody hates or loves anyone except themselves.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no feeling that can match the emotive intensity of an attraction devoid of explanation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Who are these people, that they want to save the world and yet they are incapable of forming proper relationships with anybody? As GoodNews so eloquently puts it, it’s love this and love that, but of course it’s so easy to love someone you don’t know, whether it’s George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you’ve ever shared Christmas turkey – now there’s a miracle.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every relationship is a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I never make fun of ladies… Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
Speaker: LightsongSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.Speaker: Phillip LopateSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Eve was “not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
Speaker: As quoted by Alonzo L. GaskillSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 62Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every woman is a daughter of God. You cannot offend her without offending Him.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to do your best – such a woman is worthy of your love.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t live with an angel unless you change to a like condition. You eventually shape up or ship our. Whatever good there is in one person is appealed to by the angel nature of the other. Most people have a great deal of good within them, and if only others would perceive it and treat them accordingly, this would tend to bring it out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It takes two to fight, and if one partner does not fight back, soon the other’s angry surliness spends itself. When my wife didn’t punish me, the Lord did in His matchless way, and I ended up apologizing to my wife… For the Lord is not only our advocate with the Father; He is our advocate with all of our Father’s other children, unless we become our own advocate and defender.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I asked my sister what I should do, and she said the best thing to do is be honest about my feelings. My psychiatrist said the same thing. And then I felt really sad because I thought maybe I was different from how Mary Elizabeth originally saw me, too. And maybe I was lying by not telling her that it was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back. But I was trying to be nice like Sam said I should. I don’t know where I went wrong.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight.
…I guess what I’m saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it’s not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when it’s peaceful outside, and you’re seeing things move, and you don’t want to, and everyone is asleep. And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity.”
It’s like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you’re happy too.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I want Sam to stop liking Craig.
Now, I guess maybe you think that’s because I am jealous of him. I’m not. Honest. It’s just that Craig doesn’t really listen to her when she talks. I don’t mean that he’s a bad guy because he’s not. It’s just that he always looks distracted.
It’s like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it’s beautiful is because of Sam.
I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. And I think it’s bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It’s very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because an older boy sees her that way.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Will decided he would correct any erroneous impressions he might have given slowly and patiently, but halfway through their first time out alone together, he was reminded of the old April Fool’s Day joke about Britain changing over to driving on the right, and making the changeover gradually. Either you lied or you told the truth, it appeared, and that in-between state was pretty tricky to achieve.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One day, he thought, he might learn the lesson that lying about one’s very identity was a purely short-term strategy, useful only in relationships that had a limited life-span. You could tell a bus conductor or a taxi driver all sorts of rubbish, provided the journey was brief, but if you intended to spend the rest of your life with somebody, then it was kind of inevitable that she would find out things sooner or later.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He was almost sure that Rachel was about to make him very miserable indeed, mostly because he couldn’t see anything he might have that could possibly interest her.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!