405 quotes found
“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”
“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”
“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.”
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
“I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which...”
“give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me”
“I can get on with someone really, really, really well and if theyre no good at having sex with me, it really upsets me, because I think, oh God, this is someone Id really like to spend the rest of ...”
“Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down v...”
“Thats what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.”
“Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.”
“No matter where you go, there you are!”
“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and...”
“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the ...”
“Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or dont love us, or dont get us, or ...”
“When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”
“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a doze...”
