Quotes About Private Relationships

#1. Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

Mariella Frostrup

#2. On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

#3. It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

Jorja Fox

#4. A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

John Wright

#5. I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Brittany Murphy

#6. He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.

Orson Scott Card

#7. We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This is the essence of our aloneness.

Nathaniel Branden

#8. Hopefully not by sad experience, you will find that some interactions most private, can be the coldest and most closed off, and some interactions seemingly common or casual can be the most intimate.

Michael Brent Jones

#9. Tailing someone is like maintaining a relationship: you keep at it until they give you the slip, or until they confirm everything you suspect them of.

Mark Crutchfield

#10. I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

Pamela Stephenson

#11. I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

Jonathan Ames

#12. I am Reaylin de Voss," she said smugly, as if he should recognize her surname. He did not, which meant her family was not particularly wealthy, powerful or influential. "Well,

Kel Kade

#13. It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.

Andrey Illarionov

#14. The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

John Stott

#15. I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

Ashton Kutcher

#16. I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

Tyler Oakley

#17. Unfortunately, it doesn't ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

Kenneth Eade

#18. It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

Victor LaValle

#19. 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

#20. Sometimes white knights have tattoos, princess.

Helena Hunting

#21. Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they've got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one.

Merce Cardus

#22. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#23. Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.

Amy Lane

#24. Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Christopher Columbus

#25. We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

Carl Rogers

#26. You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

T.D. Jakes

#27. It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#28. I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.

Leona Lewis

#29. You would be every woman's wet dream if you didn't open your mouth.

Jordan Marie

#30. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

#31. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.

Lauren Oliver

#32. The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.

George R R Martin

#33. For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

Tony Iommi

#34. I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

Tamara Ecclestone

#35. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

George Orwell

#36. Your private self must become the same as your public self.

John Kuypers

#37. I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.

Joe Mantello

#38. My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

Alice Eve