Partner Quotes

#1. What is love? Love is treating your heart with a great deal of tenderness, with understanding, love, and compassion. If you cannot treat your own heart this way, how can you treat your partner with understanding and love?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

Irwin Schiff

#3. They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.

I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?

Ruth Ahmed

#4. I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

Muhammad Ali

#5. The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

Michael Ian Black

#6. In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

Douglass North

#7. If we minimize our gifts, hush our voice, and stay small in a misguided attempt to fit a weak and culturally conditioned standard of femininity, we cannot give our brothers the partner they require in God's mission for the world.

Sarah Bessey

#8. We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Bell Hooks

#9. With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.

Elizabeth Warren

#10. A Venture Culture. Robert S. Adelson Managing Partner, Osage Partners Our

Chris LoPresti

#11. Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.

Tim Field

#12. Domestic abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is the systematic suffocation of another person's spirit.

Joanna Hunter

#13. God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

Brian Mulroney

#15. CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent's love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences of child marriage, they're far less likely to push their children into it.

Helene D. Gayle

#16. Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deserves

John Gray

#17. China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

James Dyson

#18. Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

Michelle Chamuel

#20. And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence?

Helene Wecker

#21. I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

Tom Heinsohn

#22. I'm very, very lucky in that I have a partner who is willing to do it with me in a really collaborative way. Fortunately, even though we couldn't stay in a romantic relationship, our values are very much around the importance of family and the importance of those relationships.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#23. I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Kyra Sedgwick

#24. Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

John Piper

#25. As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#27. Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

Hadley Freeman

#28. When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Robert M. Gates

#29. Make your inner foundations strong and secure and then you can enjoy your partner, rather than feeling you must own them.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#30. If you want a senator who'll partner with the president to do what's best for the nation, I'm your guy.

Tim Kaine

#31. He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. - Anonymous

Kyra Sundance

#32. It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.

Richard Gere

#33. If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

#34. I was your lover Liam, but never your partner. I won't settle for that, not even for you. You had my heart in your hands, and you didn't know what to do with it. I can tell you, without the crystal ball, without the gift, you will never have another like it.

Nora Roberts

#35. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#36. America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

Jo Ann Emerson

#37. It is I, and I stand with the girl, the Elemental and the partner of the skeleton detective, and although she is late she is here, which is the important thing, and we are moving on.

Derek Landy

#38. The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, "I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that!" A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, "My partner should really meet you!"

Sharon Salzberg

#39. There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again.

Ellen Hopkins

#40. For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

Fred Astaire

#41. Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.

Victor Koo

#42. I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.

Hillary Clinton

#43. We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

Ricky Whittle

#44. To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

Janet Morris

#45. I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Vidya Balan

#46. You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

Bill Hybels

#47. If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place.

Paulo Coelho

#48. It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.

Stephen Gillett

#49. I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

Patrick Swayze

#50. I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

Michael Arrington

#51. What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

Mariella Frostrup

#52. If your partner means the world to you, then other people, including temptations and outside influences, shouldn't be living in it. Why invite trouble? There's enough to go around.

Donna Lynn Hope

#53. Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration's opposition to Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad.

David Ignatius

#54. I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#55. There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is very different. Philosophy wants to try to understand everything. It is a better dialogue partner with faith than law.

Francis George

#56. We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.

Richard Branson

#57. Beware of Destination Addiction ... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

Robert Holden

#58. Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

Michel Martelly

#59. If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.

Debbie Ford

#60. One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.

Justin Trudeau

#61. The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

#62. There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

Randeep Hooda

#63. I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

Jorja Fox

#64. My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Stewart Lee Beck

#65. 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

#66. She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.

Keith Hollihan

#67. Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.

Lundy Bancroft

#68. I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

Robin Leach

#69. Mulder looked down at his partner.
'Please get better,' he said. 'I'm going to need all the help I can get.'
He might have been crazy, but he thought he saw her head give a tiny nod.
He'd have to wait and see.

Les Martin

#70. When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Kate Moss

#71. If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.

Patti Stanger

#72. Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

Larry Holmes

#73. I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

Elton John

#74. Listen to this: "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel"!

J.K. Rowling

#75. As Vishous seemed to find a partner in surly crime with Rhamp, Qhuinn found himself staring at the brother. For a lot of reasons. One,

J.R. Ward

#76. I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

Willie Geist

#77. And here, in thought, to thee-
In thought that can alone,
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne,
By winged Fantasy,
My embassy is given,
Till secrecy shall knowledge be
In the environs of Heaven.

Edgar Allan Poe

#78. Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

Mariella Frostrup

#79. I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#80. Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.

Scott B. Pruden

#81. You can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue.

Rabih Alameddine

#82. 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

#83. A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, I don't have an opinion on that.

Jeff VanderMeer

#84. Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Milan Kundera

#85. The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.
And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.

Byron Katie

#86. In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

Al Roker

#87. And I'm thankful, in that moment, full to the brim with gratitude that Christian is with me. He's here. My partner. My best friend.

Cynthia Hand

#88. How to care for intimate apparel? Treat your bras like you'd want a partner to handle your breasts: with kindness and a gentle touch.

Elisabeth Dale

#89. Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love .
The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love .

John Gray

#90. Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

Vladimir Putin

#91. The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Sacha Guitry

#92. Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.

Anchee Min

#93. Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.

Stephen Kinzer

#94. A marriage based not on self-denial but on self-fulfillment will require a low- or no-maintenance partner who meets your needs while making almost no claims on you. Simply put - today people are asking far too much in the marriage partner.

Timothy J. Keller

#95. It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

Henry Ford

#96. A woman is at the funeral of her mother. There, she meets a man she doesn't know and has never met, who she thinks is her dream partner. But because of the circumstances, she forgets to ask for his number, and she can't find him afterward. A few days later, she kills her own sister. Why?

Jodi Picoult

#97. David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU.

Barack Obama

#98. What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Michael Bloomberg

#99. Mukesh calls me his true life partner ... I just enjoy being Mukesh's wife.

Nita Ambani

#100. I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors.

Denis Leary