Quotes Tagged "relations"

Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely clean. My question is this: which of the two will wash his face? That’s a silly question. The one with the dirty face of course.’ No, the one with the dirty face will look at the other man and assume that he looks like him. And, vice versa, the man with the clean face will see his colleague covered in grime and say to himself: I must be dirty too. I’d better have a wash.’ What are you trying to say?’ I’m saying that, during the time I spent in the hospital, I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent or self-confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me thinking that they were worse than they were. Please, don’t let that happen to you.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements, are things I no longer have an equivalent to. Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now. -Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

The only relationship where you’ll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

There are moments in relationship when you didn't speak, you didn't have to; but you talked a lot.

After a point, all marriages become boring, some are peacefully boring and some are annoyingly boring.

Give birth to compassion in your relations, all else, unbidden, will come along.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.