Relationship Firsts Quotes

#1. God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

Amy Weber

#2. What comes first in a relationship is lust - then more lust.

Jacqueline Bisset

#3. First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Peter McWilliams

#4. It is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.

Edward Said

#5. 'The Inbetweeners' would have been a success with a totally different cast because the scripts are good - so while we were fortunate enough to be cast in it, we feel we still have a lot to prove.

Simon Bird

#6. I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

Naomi Judd

#7. Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear of giving oneself away.

May Sarton

#8. Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

Howard Nemerov

#9. The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Idries Shah

#10. We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.

Wayne Dyer

#12. A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. The image of the "self-destructive artist" is a culturally implanted kill switch. Ignore it. Imagination is a weapon; you have been indoctrinated with these images so that if you discover the weapon, you will use it on yourself and save them the trouble.

Jason Louv

#14. My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Pat Metheny

#15. Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

Sonia Choquette

#16. When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

Marshall Sylver

#17. Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

Kelly Clarkson

#18. We have an amazing relationship, and always have. She was so warm and welcoming to me - Veep was my first job out of school. Julia's [ Louis-Dreyfus] and my relationship couldn't be more different from Selina and Catherine's.

Sarah Sutherland

#19. Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.

Bertrand Tavernier

#20. Whether real or imagined, immediate or simply anticipated, fear is a vigorous source of massive confusion.

John Zande

#21. We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')

Douglas Kennedy

#22. If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

Harriet Lerner