Having A Partner In Life Quotes

#1. I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

Maria Bello

#2. People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.

Bruce McCulloch

#3. I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

Dick Van Dyke

#4. Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

Gabrielle Giffords

#5. In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was.

Louise Penny

#6. I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
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Neena Verma

#7. Life is better with a partner.

Melissa Mae Palmer

#8. I think the best part about my dad being gay is that I'm much more open-minded. I feel more at peace and I'm a good listener. I learned so much from (my dad's partner) John. How would I have turned out if this weren't my life?

Judith E. Snow

#9. You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#10. I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.

Hilary Duff

#11. See, it's that kind of attitude that irritates me. My wolf is only a part of me, and while she might think you smell good and want to do nasty things to your body." He choked. "I want more out of a partner in life than hot, animal sex. I want a man who will support me.

Eve Langlais

#12. Life is a sparring partner;
adversity is its gloves.
Life is an opponent;
adversity is its blows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. If you want to dance the dance then you better learn the steps, the world has enough pretenders. If you want to practice sex then you better find a partner, and to love you must surrender.

Carroll Bryant

#14. We are shaped by the people and events that came before us: their likes and dislikes, their choice of life partner, the vocations they chose, the events they took part in or caused to happen, and the legacies they left behind.

Marion Marchetto

#15. Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

Donald O. Clifton

#16. I think it's weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don't ever relish the moment, don't talk to each other about what works and what doesn't. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.

Lexi Blake

#17. I think the value of a relationship is not how long it is but how much it helps you to grow as a human being ... how much it affected your life and how much it affected your partner's.

Fritz Diantan

#18. I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

Marian Keyes

#19. Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first.

Isman H. Suryaman

#20. For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

Amanda Seyfried

#21. Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

Dag Hammarskjold

#22. It is in the immediacy of our personal lives that our proclamations for a better world acquire real life meaning.

Meryn G. Callander

#23. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.

Paul O'Brien

#24. If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.

Rory McCann

#25. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.

Paul Clitheroe

#26. There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Joko Beck

#27. The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

Milan Kundera

#28. My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Dave Goldberg

#29. With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.

Peter Shepherd

#30. What the fuck, Ian? I'm your partner. Before anything else, I'm the guy who - " "No!" he roared. "Before anything else you're my life, you stupid prick!

Mary Calmes

#31. I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.

Lindsey Vonn

#32. Your best friend knows some of your secrets,
your life partner knows many of them,
you know most of them,
but God knows all of the secrets of your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single.

Kemi Sogunle

#34. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

Ronald C. White Jr.

#35. Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life.

John Gray

#36. It struck Harold afresh how life could change in an instant. You could be doing something so everyday - walking your partner's dog, putting on your shoes - and not knowing that everything you wanted you were about to lose.

Rachel Joyce

#37. She that in life and love refuses me,
In death and shame my partner she shall be.

Thomas Middleton

#38. Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you - a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone.

Carrie Brownstein

#39. When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

Pierce Brosnan

#40. I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

Mike Evans