Close Relationship Quotes

#1. The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.

Narendra Modi

#2. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#3. Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only close one personality type. But if you learn how to effectively work with all four personality types, you can conceivably close 100 percent of your contacts.

Rod Nichols

#5. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Dan Quayle

#7. You, little girl, better be careful. You're dangerously close to getting me to fall for you, and I don't do relationship, I do girls. Call me if you're ever lonely.

Rachel Van Dyken

#8. I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

Cathy Guisewite

#9. For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

Rafe Spall

#10. When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Tadao Ando

#11. Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day

#12. My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

Gia Coppola

#13. I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anne Rice

#14. The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

David O. McKay

#15. But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything
and jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth.

Ken Kesey

#16. You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.

Myles Munroe

#17. I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

Kristin Cavallari

#18. To serve means to work alongside the neediest, first of all to establish a close human relationship with them, based on solidarity. Solidarity - this word elicits fear in the developed world. They try not to say it. It is almost a dirty word for them. But it's our word!

Pope Francis

#19. Spicy food and I have a close relationship - an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain ... which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.

Maureen Johnson

#20. People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Joyce Meyer

#21. Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

David Bowie

#22. I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

Alicia Keys

#23. The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

Robert Crais

#24. I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Joe Biden

#25. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

Lenny Kravitz

#26. Without feeling so close, so connected, so comfortable to a person for what I have sex.

Baris Gencel

#27. Distance reflects the true intensity of the relationship.. Some people come too close & Some forgets that u exist too..

Vineet Upadhyay

#28. Sometimes you are more comfortable with a person who gets close without coming close.

Shampa Sharma

#29. Studies have actually shown that there is a very close positive relationship between insulin resistance and hypertension. Actually, diabetics who suffer from hypertension have double the risk of suffering from cardiovascular heart disease.

Janie Sanders

#30. No relationship can survive without trust, honesty, and communication, no matter how close you are.

J. Sterling

#31. God reveals everything He has planned to people that knows Him and has a close relationship with Him.

Sunday Adelaja

#32. You cannot be in a close and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and remain so tormented.

Lisa Heaton

#33. God doesn't want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him

Sunday Adelaja

#34. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#35. The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

John Moody

#36. In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

Christopher Hitchens

#37. Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Ed McMahon

#38. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

David Whyte

#39. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Richard Bach

#40. I am interested in the complicated choreography of close relationships.

Torill Kove

#41. I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

Candice Accola

#42. Joy is produced in our hearts when we know that God loves us, when we have a close relationship with Him through reading His Word, praying, and desiring to honor Him in all that we do, and by serving others.

Billy Graham

#43. Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

Tony Hiss

#44. How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#45. [On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...

Tove Ditlevsen

#46. A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.

Henning Mankell

#47. She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.

E. Leo Foster

#48. Some of my close friends could easily be deceased; this would not have a serious effect on our relationship.

Dave Barry

#49. Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual friendship.

Augusten Burroughs

#50. Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

David Duchovny

#51. For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

Ndamukong Suh

#52. Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

Atticus Ross

#53. I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

Gretchen Mol

#54. I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

Amy Chua

#55. Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

Evan Williams

#56. When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

Sofia Boutella

#57. I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#58. There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

Jean Genet

#59. If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Sarah Dessen

#60. What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.

Susan Meiselas

#61. I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.

Megan Hart

#62. The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.

David Morrissey

#63. As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship _ Jeod

Christopher Paolini

#64. Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship.

Steve Maraboli

#65. minerals. This experience again proved to me that what is termed disease is actually a deficiency which results from an imbalance in the natural environment. It also reminded me of the close relationship between the human body and the natural elements of the earth.

Joseph Dispenza

#66. The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I'm awake the entire night, revisiting our
memories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#67. My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, 'Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.' She's with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.

Tiffany Trump

#68. The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Richard G. Scott

#69. You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

Garth Brooks

#70. I blush as that word pops into my mind again, "relationship." Is this what a relationship feels like, I wonder
close, comfortable, warm, safe, thrilling, erotic, and smelling deliciously of pancakes ...

Elizabeth Finn

#71. Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Margaret Thatcher

#72. It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.

Andrew Sean Greer

#73. I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

Susanne Bier

#74. What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

Margaret Chan

#75. In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

Nicole Williams

#76. If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.

Jason Evert

#77. I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

David Hyde Pierce

#78. I have an amazing and supportive family. I'm fortunate to have a close relationship with everyone.

Jonathan Keltz

#79. Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected to our relationship. They were very much happy for us to make a decision ourselves and made it clear they would support it 100 per cent. We both had their blessing.

Hasnat Khan

#80. The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.

Mark Shields

#81. Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

Logan Lerman

#82. I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

Yolanda Adams

#83. It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Nancy Gibbs

#84. We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love - to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.

Paul Kalanithi

#85. We've had such a close relationship with the fans. Through social networking and the internet, we have much more contact, and we did go to things like Comic-Con. So, I think people know most of our secrets.

John Noble

#86. By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get ... we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

Marsden Hartley

#87. I know, despite all the gloom and self-doubt that bubbles up from the deep when you get dumped, that you did not represent my last and best chance of a relationship. So, you know. Nice try. Close, but no cigar. See you around.

Nick Hornby

#88. I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.

Robert Galbraith

#89. When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Andy Warhol

#90. I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

David Harewood

#91. God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.

Chloe M. Gooden

#92. I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.

David Hasselhoff

#93. It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Jeff Goldblum

#94. Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

Randy Falco

#95. Maintaining a close relationship with the Savior is the only goal Paul would set. He wasn't perfect at it, but he singlemindedly pursued it. And he encourages us to do so today. Life is much simpler when we choose to pursue only one thing - the race before us. Don't look back.

Various

#96. Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.

Elaine Morgan

#97. I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

Brina Palencia

#98. I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Tre Cool

#99. If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

Guillermo Del Toro

#100. Every person is a star; it just depends upon how close you are to him, that you realize his true potential and power.

Rupali Rajopadhye Rotti