Relationship Failing Quotes

#1. Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Rick Perlstein

#2. At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

Iggy Pop

#3. Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

Ralph Nader

#4. Stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.

Hayley Williams

#5. So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

Gavin DeGraw

#6. Are you a victim or volunteer in your unhappy, failing relationship.

Joanne Williams

#7. I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

Kim Alexis

#8. I have very bad posture.

Kurt Cobain

#9. Sorry, I should have warned you. Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So far we've avoided it, but .

Charles Stross

#10. I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outsrtipped or belittled.

Germaine Greer

#11. We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

Leo Buscaglia

#12. Call me a skeptic, but I've always thought that it takes more than organic vegetables and talking circles to make an ideal society. Raven

Jennifer McMahon

#13. Men loathe the feeling of failing at the relationship.

Shawn T. Smith

#14. To give up on a person you care for who is trying and failing is a bad thing, but to cut ties with an individual who is giving zero effort, yet doing a number on your heart makes sense.

Christopher Hudspeth

#15. There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

Daniel Everett

#16. I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

Alexandra Stoddard

#17. What he wanted was Megan wanting him ... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again ... and simply failing.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#18. When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

Alan Cohen

#19. When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.

Matthew Henry

#20. They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

Joshua Ferris

#21. None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

Marshall Goldsmith

#22. You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

Guy Pearce

#23. Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

Dan Fogelberg

#24. You can't hold on and let go to (at the sametime) of you worthless, unhappy, failing relationship

Joanne Williams

#25. O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

William Shakespeare

#26. The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.

Kristen Lamb