Top 42 Quotes About Not Trying In Relationships
#1. Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.
Breeana Puttroff
#2. Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.
Judy Blume
#3. Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.
Lorrie Moore
#4. Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.
Ryan Lilly
#5. It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.
Katie Couric
#6. I rubbed my head trying to fend off the headache I was sure this conversation would bring me.
Hilary Grossman
#7. Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed.
Ken Wheaton
#8. I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.
Deb Caletti
#9. Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
Louise Caiola
#10. Whether we are trying to buy a packet of chips or getting to know a person for a potentially important relationship, its nice to have an overview of what it/he/she contains. - Of A Sense of Self
Amrita Sarkar
#11. Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living - in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.
Vironika Tugaleva
#12. When work relationships are reciprocal, ethical leadership emerges for both the executive and the participant unless the executive is trying to control the participant.
Peter J. Dean
#13. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.
Crystal Woods
#14. Trying to figure out a person that you don't know is like foreplay
with no consummation.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#15. We tend to give up so easy in trying to understand people so we end up judging them !!
Hisham Fawzi
#16. I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.
Lynn Shelton
#17. The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love
and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
David Deida
#18. If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Imagine that we're new and you're trying to impress me, because at the rate you're going, soon that will become someone else's right.
Crystal Woods
#20. Many people lack the passion to keep trying in their relationships. I believe that is why people start to resent their lovers and start cheating on them. It's sad really. Love is so wonderful and so worth fighting for.
Roxanne Hargrove
#21. Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
Charles Baxter
#22. I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. We go through life trying to line up the chess pieces just right, but doing so is difficult. Something is always not quite to our liking. Health may not be perfect. Finances may not be perfect. Relationships may not be perfect.
Solomon Katz
#24. Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.
Hilary Grossman
#25. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#26. Maybe you're smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I'm trying to do her justice, you know?
James Lusarde
#27. I had a dream about you; you sat at the end of this long road field with things trying to keep me from you. You cheered me on as I became closer to you.
Rodney Jenkins
#28. Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.
Carlos Wallace
#29. Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.
Sean Parker
#30. 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
#31. The most important component to the Apple experience is that the staff isn't focused on selling stuff. It's focused on building relationships and trying to make people's lives better.
Carmine Gallo
#32. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.
Sally Hogshead
#33. I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
Salman Rushdie
#34. You know, in everyone's life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is - one times one equals one.
S.B. Redd
#35. Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#36. Compared to me, everyone has normal relationships.'
Sera laughed. 'Right. Especially me. I'm the queen of normal relationships. The merman I love is about to marry someone else. We have to pretend to hate each other. And his future wife is trying to kill me. Totally normal.
Jennifer Donnelly
#37. I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on
Jack Weyland
#38. Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.
Miriam
#40. I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
Jeanette Winterson
#41. Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
Catherynne M Valente
#42. The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton
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