quotes about relationships

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~Arthur C. Clarke



An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. ~John Buchan



Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal



I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. ~John Waters, quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon Redux, compiled & edited by Jon Winokur, 1992



Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice



Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ~Benjamin Franklin



Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900



And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? ~Carl Sandburg, Good Morning America, 1928



Volunteers are love in motion! ~Author Unknown



Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. ~Douglas Busch



Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts. Football is a beastly game played by beasts. ~Henry Blaha, 1972



I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"



Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis



If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau



She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller



If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown



Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb



The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Kin Hubbard



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu