Quotes About Define The Relationship

#1. Yet after withdrawing from three wars in two generations - each begun with idealistic aspirations and widespread public support but ending in national trauma - America struggles to define the relationship between its power (still vast) and its principles.

Henry Kissinger

#2. Ruthie started to cry at Julia's use of the word "hate," though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time now it had been easier just to hate her sister. Easier to try to define the relationship with that simple emotion than to live with the conflicting set of feelings Julia brought forth.

Susan Rebecca White

#3. When people say 'marriage' to me ... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

Lady Gaga

#4. All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.

Joo Won

#5. It is not the rough times endured that define your relationship, it's how you deal with them and bounce back.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. Whether it's your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living - don't let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

Sherry Argov

#7. To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.

Michael Oakeshott

#8. Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Patti Davis

#9. To bring myself back to a perspective of all that I am in Christ - not according to the world. I need it to remind myself that the world doesn't define me. I am defined by my relationship with Jesus Christ.

Tony Dungy

#10. A relationship doesn't define you. You define you.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#11. Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals.

Audre Lorde

#12. Time cannot define your relationship. It's the bonding you share even if you have met a day before.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#13. We define ourselves in relationship to Christ: who we are is how we relate to him. The Son, sent by the Father, lives in us through the Holy Spirit, and we can't truly meet ourselves until we meet him.

Adam S. McHugh

#14. He stroked a hand across my shoulders. "You know, I've never seen this agressively intellectual side of you before. It's rather disturbing and yet somehow a little sexy."
Which is pretty much how we define our relationship", I said.

Molly Harper

#15. I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

Brene Brown

#16. Silence is always with us. But we do not choose silence, silence chooses us. If you are called to be silent on your journey, recognize the invitation as a great gift. It is a gift to be shared with others. Your relationship to silence is one thing that will define the uniqueness of your journey.

John Francis

#17. What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Rashid Johnson

#18. Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you have to cross to the other side with your dreams!

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. The Joker as sadistic chaos, the Batman as merciless order. This mirror-image theme would come to define the two characters' relationship in the comics and across all media for the next forty years.

Glen Weldon

#20. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

John Sentamu

#21. Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

Charles Du Bos

#22. It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.

C. JoyBell C.

#23. In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined - by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Richard Rohr

#24. Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West

#25. I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.

George Carlin

#26. Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

Matthew Scully

#27. No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship ... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Elisabeth Sladen

#28. Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.

Sebastian Pole

#29. So by being created, you are automatically made manifest within a system in which you are directly associated with your creator, and it is this association that we define as a relationship.

Chris Matakas

#30. Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

W. H. Auden

#31. What is your intention as you begin dating? Are you hoping to enter into another serious relationship right away? Exclusive or Open? Companion? Friend with benefits? You define this. Don't let someone else define this for you.

Staci Bartley

#32. Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

Dermot Davis

#33. To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us.

David W. Earle

#34. I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

Rhea Seehorn

#35. There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.

A first glance

A first smile

A first kiss

A first fall ...

Colleen Hoover