Strained Relationship Quotes

#1. [On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

Lindsay Davenport

#2. I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

Victoria Justice

#3. Due to Gail's drug addiction and my mother's street status, their relationship had been strained over the years. My

Mz. Lady P

#4. Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

Peter Kreeft

#5. The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which "God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

Thomas Merton

#6. Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.

Dan Bartlett

#7. Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. What is life to you Jonathan?" he asked

Suren Hakobyan

#9. One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

Nora Ephron

#10. England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War... I love it.

Ian Hislop

#11. Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Who brings baby pictures on an international flight?" I hissed. "If I'd wanted my bare ass paraded in front of all the first-class ticket holders I'd have mooned everyone before we took off!

Jennifer Rardin

#13. The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

Nick Hanauer

#14. Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the park railings, gave me an exhilarating sensation of adventure.

Simone De Beauvoir

#15. If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.

Dave Ramsey

#16. Miracles should run after you and not you running after miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.

William Cowper

#18. My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Henry Rollins