#relations

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#demands #enough #exhausted #explained #flop

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#count #live #live audience #me #more

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#believe #better #hopefully #i #i do

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#her #herself #i #i can #killed

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#come #comic #context #i #i love

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross. ↗

— Megan Fox

#anyone #attraction #doing #feign #get

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#away #become #child #fully #grow

You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent. "But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´" The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#author #between #i #i write #new

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#mature #person #relationships