Top 100 Partner Not Quotes
#1. I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.
Dave DeBronkart
#2. I stood up for myself, reminding Lucas that I was his partner, not his punching bag.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#3. My power is a dance. I am its partner, not its slave.
Tessa Gratton
#4. Unlike every other farang in Thailand, I never did get involved with bargirls. I was looking for a partner. Not a professional.
John Cameron Smith
#5. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
#6. Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships, where you might want your partner not just to care about you or understand you but to feel what you feel.
Paul Bloom
#7. I want to be with you. Not just as a partner, not just as a friend. I want us to be together, to be one, to be ... I don't know, a fucking couple.
Karina Halle
#8. She beat lightly on his chest with her fists. "I want a partner, not a protector."
"Can't I be both?"
"You're enormously exasperating sometimes, do you know that?"
He grinned. "And you love me anyway.
Marie Force
#9. The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
Erica Jong
#10. Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.
Allan Pease
#11. The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#12. True love is when your partner will pull into a drive-through at two in the morning and not judge you as you eat french fries with a side of both strawberry thickshake and coffee.
Sean Kennedy
#13. 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
#14. The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.
Joel Osteen
#15. Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.
Marc Jacobs
#16. You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#17. I did not want to hear the pain of my male partner because hearing it required that I surrender my investment in the patriarchal ideal of the male as protector of the wounded. If he was wounded, then how could he protect me? As
Bell Hooks
#18. I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
Diane Lane
#19. Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves."
"That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?
Robert Arthur
#20. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#21. And I may now avow, Mr Clennam,' said he, with a cordial shake of the hand, 'that if I had looked high and low for a partner, I believe I could not have found one more to my mind.' 'I say the same,' said Clennam. 'And
Charles Dickens
#22. Seriously? Do you ever not think about food?"
"Of course I do," Dex replied with a smirk. "When I'm thinking about sex. Though sometimes I like to think of both at the same time." He wriggled his eyebrows, but his partner remained unimpressed.
"Am I going to have to give you a time-out?
Charlie Cochet
#23. I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.
Hill Harper
#24. Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don't love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#25. 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
#26. The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
Patrick Dempsey
#27. We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.
Ehud Barak
#28. Love in NOT blind. It teaches you to be blind and overlook your partner's mistakes and shortcomings.
Reetwika Banerjee
#29. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. A relationship is NOT about your new partner to hear the things you didn't tell your ex's and for you to live on the fear of past relationship(s) ... BUT sometimes the person cannot love you as much as you appreciate yourself.
Coco Nicole Estef
#31. This must not be planet earth," Cone told his partner. "This must be hell." But it wasn't. It was just Odessa.
H. G. Bissinger
#32. For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins
but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.
Dave Hunt
#33. Things have changed from the old days when movie studios encouraged stars to partner up for publicity. There's been some pressure from Disney Channel for people to not have a personal relationship with their business partners.
Lucas Grabeel
#34. My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
Sherman Alexie
#35. Healthy relationships are founded on who the relationship partner actually is, not on who they could become. The
Debra Fileta
#36. Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.
Jane Austen
#37. M. de Rollebon was my partner; he needed me in order to exist and I needed him so as not to feel my existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#38. Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.
Will Smith
#39. For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Yves Behar
#40. What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
Oliver Stone
#41. The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.
Lundy Bancroft
#42. Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.
John Connolly
#43. It was romance though that compelled me, not lust; I wanted to lose myself in a woman, to have an ally, a partner, a girlfriend.
Anonymous
#44. Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. "This might not work" isn't merely something to be tolerated; it's something you must seek out.
Seth Godin
#45. The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#46. It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.
Margaret Cho
#47. You're not crazy. In fact, you're perfect. Everything about you couldnt be more so if I made a list of all the qualities I wanted in a partner and special ordered you.
Bonnie Erina Wheeler
#48. A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
#49. India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's ... All you can be."
He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner
and that's everything.
Melissa Marr
#51. Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.
Kevin Rollins
#52. That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
Michael Morpurgo
#53. Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.
Isha Judd
#54. Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.
David Eagleman
#55. In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point.
Samuel Beckett
#56. While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.
Stephen Richards
#57. Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
Harry Vardon
#58. 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
#59. Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern
#60. Most of all, it teaches you that your body is not just a sort of jar made out of meat that you lug around because it's what you keep your brain in, but an equal and in fact quite opinionated and demonstrative partner in the joint production that is you.
Hanne Blank
#61. By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.
Pearl Zhu
#62. Trust is not hoping your partner will love you; it is KNOWING that they DO.
Julieanne O'Connor
#63. I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.
Haruki Murakami
#64. What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God; it makes sense that we possess the desire to be together.
Debra Fileta
#65. Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called "gender empathy". Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay.
Mary Roach
#66. Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.
Karen Salmansohn
#67. Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
Henry Cloud
#68. If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
Karen Salmansohn
#69. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.
Meryn G. Callander
#70. I'm not you, Douglas. I don't look at every keyhole as a possible future sex partner.
Eric Arvin
#71. Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend.
Josh Mathews
#72. I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.
Tucker Max
#73. The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.
John Krasinski
#74. Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#75. He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking
Eden Winters
#76. When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply would be, "You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.
Eknath Easwaran
#77. Romantic love is not a concept that I'm familiar with or interested in familiarizing myself with. Love is for the weak, everyday people looking for soul mates, a partner to witness their life. There's nothing in my life that I wish for someone else to witness.
Anonymous
#78. My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
Evangeline Lilly
#79. When, on your dangerous mission gone,
You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances.
Stanley Kunitz
#80. Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too.
Augustine Sam
#81. The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
Tamara Tunie
#82. With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
Ann Aguirre
#83. I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
Jennifer Lopez
#84. One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
Lauren Willig
#85. The bad ones want you to work around them and their time and the decent ones want too much time. I just don't have it. I am in grind mode. I do not have time to be a mother, a student, a home health care worker and a girlfriend to someone. Now a fuck partner, yea I could get with that.
M.J. Sparks
#86. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one's partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.
Sharon Salzberg
#87. The truth about porn. Men do not watch porn and fantasize over the women in the videos, they fantasize about being wanted like the women in the videos are pretending to want their partner. If you want to fulfill your man's fantasies, just make him feel wanted.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#88. A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.
John Armstrong
#89. I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?
Daniel D. Palmer
#90. In the United States there's an optimistic expectation that most people will remain faithful to their partner, but actual data show great numbers of people will not.
Aziz Ansari
#91. A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.
Joe Hyams
#92. When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak
#93. It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.
Hayley Atwell
#95. The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something infinitely great, the extreme limit of his strength.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#96. I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.
Ricardo Mayorga
#97. I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you're not ready for Big Love. What you're ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.
Bruce H. Lipton
#98. Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.
David Richo
#99. A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.
Gabrielle Dennis
#100. Button, I am pretty sure more than one Mason has had carnal knowledge of their partner at that table and not just me. Grandma included.
Alex Morgan
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