Top 100 Quotes About Human Relationships
#1. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.
Timothy Keller
#2. Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
Jeffery Deaver
#3. Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?
William Boyd
#4. Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith
#5. Strategic partnership is the truest foundation for marriage and intimacy. Strategic thinking does not assume atomistic individuals; indeed, Austen argues that strategic thinking in concert forms the basis of the closest human relationships.
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
#6. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Tahereh Mafi
#7. The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#8. All human relationships must be purchased with money.
George Orwell
#9. If you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.
Arman
#10. Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
Toni Morrison
#11. Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
Natalia Ginzburg
#12. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#13. Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.
Audrey Hepburn
#14. I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
Patricia Heaton
#16. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
Ayn Rand
#17. It's funny because you always think a real friendship can weather any storm, but human relationships can be as flimsy as paper boats in a tsunami."
~ page 97
Steven Parlato
#18. I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.
Dov Davidoff
#19. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.
Richard Ebeling
#20. Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Ross Perot
#21. A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
#22. The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.
John Dewey
#23. Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring, she seemed to suggest.
Patrick White
#24. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Ram Dass
#25. Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
Albert Camus
#26. In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.
David Wenham
#27. Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
Charles Bukowski
#28. Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#29. Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.
Kenneth Eade
#30. All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.
Thomas Keating
#32. I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.
Sophie Hannah
#33. Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood
#34. Christopher McCandless:I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Shunryu Suzuki
#35. Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy; we want variety; and we want novelty. But friendship requires a whole other set of mind.
Stuart Miller
#36. The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.
Richard Pascale
#37. Cat lovers display an intensity lacking - thank goodness - in most human relationships.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#38. I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.
Albert Einstein
#39. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
Helena Rubinstein
#40. The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#41. Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.
L. Ron Hubbard
#42. Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.
Ridley Scott
#43. No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.
Pope Francis
#44. The novels that attract me most ... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
Italo Calvino
#45. Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.
Virginia Woolf
#46. I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.
Mary Borden
#47. Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#48. Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.
Frances G. Wickes
#49. Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won't break.
Fred Rogers
#50. The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day
a way of relating.
Joyce Carol Oates
#51. War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#52. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#53. Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.
Francis Schaeffer
#54. The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.
William Safire
#55. Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.
Michael D. O'Brien
#56. I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.
Gwendoline Christie
#57. Stories are the currency of human relationships.
Robert McKee
#58. Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.
Amit Ray
#59. Intimacy in all human relationships - especially with God - can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned.
Belden C. Lane
#60. Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda
#61. They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All a writer has is her own experience, and that experience comes out of human relationships.
Vivian Gornick
#62. Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.
Bernie De Koven
#63. I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
Sadie Jones
#64. Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning.
Gary Chapman
#65. If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
Madeleine L'Engle
#66. When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
Joyce Maynard
#67. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
Alex Colville
#68. Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships, the ability of all peoples of all kins to live together and to work together in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#69. Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
Daniel Goleman
#71. City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group, where relationships with the rest of the animate and inanimate world are still given due place.
James E. Lovelock
#72. My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
Vikas Swarup
#73. Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.
Amity Gaige
#74. History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Johan Huizinga
#75. Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
John Ortberg Jr.
#76. People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
Adrien Brody
#77. The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.
David Novak
#78. Human relationships are chemical reactions. If you have a reaction then you can never return back to your previous state of being.
Sui Ishida
#79. In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves ... In human relationships I learn that theory is no substitute for love. It is easy to talk about the love of GOD; it is another thing to practice it
Joan D. Chittister
#80. Her unseen palette of human relationships forged connections, established bonds, and changed lives in ways few of the attendees understood.
Anthony Flacco
#81. The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
Buzz Aldrin
#82. Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.
Graham Greene
#83. If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.
Ayn Rand
#84. Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
John Grierson
#85. Ashe was typical of that stratum of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat.
John Le Carre
#86. Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
John Hannah
#87. It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
E. O. Wilson
#88. Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
Jonathan Haidt
#89. 'Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about the human relationships between characters and the strain that things can put on them. It's also a little bit of a social commentary piece, because it covers very timely issues.
Avan Jogia
#90. Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
Susan Orlean
#91. In the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.
Marcia Falk
#92. The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.
Frances Moore Lappe
#93. There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?
Neale Donald Walsch
#94. Human relationships flourish and decay, quickly and silently, so that those concerned scarcely know how brittle, or how inflexible, the ties that bind them have become.
Anthony Powell
#95. [The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#96. Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.
Lynn Coady
#97. Human relationships are not rocket science
the are far, far more complicated
James W. Pennebaker
#98. What matters in the story of our human relationships is not whether they lead to happily ever after but who and what they make of us. All relationships are our teachers, and this is especially so in a time of societal unraveling.
Carolyn Baker
#99. A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
Andy Rooney
#100. There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships, it can be vastly complicated. Each of us has our own unique love-history, perceptions, and expectations.
Michael Beckwith
